Quran Ontology: Review On Recent Development And Open Research Issues

Quran is the holy book of Muslims that contains the commandment of words of Allah. Quran provides instructions and guidance to humankind in achieving happiness in life in the world and the hereafter. As a holy book, Quran contains rich knowledge and scientific facts. However, humans have difficulty in understanding the Quran content. It is caused by the fact that the meaning of the searched message content depends on the interpretation. Ontology able to store the knowledge representation of Holy Quran. This paper studies recent ontology on Holy Quran research. We investigate the current trends and technology being applied. This investigation cover on several aspects, such as outcomes of previous studies, language which used on ontology development, coverage area of Quran ontology, datasets, tools to perform ontology development ontology population techniques, approaches used to integrate the knowledge of Quran and other resources into ontology, ontology testing techniques, and limitations on previous research. This review has identified four major issues involved in Quran ontology, i.e. availability of Quran ontology in various translation, ontology resources, automated process of Meronymy relationship extraction, and Instances Classification. The review of existing studies will allow future researchers to have a broad and useful background knowledge on primary and essential aspects of this research field