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Big Data: New Development Opportunities in Islamic Studies /53

Through the paper, we present the most important
concepts related to Data Science that serve the Islamic
researcher in general, and the religious educational
institutions in particular, without explaining the relevant
technical methods, for it is not its purpose.
Moreover, we pointed to the importance of Big Data
analytics, in its Open Sources such as digital media
websites and Social Data, and we emphasized the need
to improve the traditional research methods, and
integrating Data Science in the Quran science
curriculum, so that it provides the Quranic researcher
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with accurate givens, in form of data visualization , that
can be understood and analyzed.
We have included samples from recent researches, to
confirm the importance of developing this trend, not only
in general studies, but also specialized that’s done by
Quranic specialists, such as detecting the most popular
Quranic misconceptions, or studying of the impact of
social conditions on how to form special perceptions
toward Quranic concepts and verses.

1. Data visualization is a general term that describes any effort to
help people understand the significance of data by placing it in a
visual context. Patterns, trends and correlations that might go
undetected in text-based data can be exposed and recognized easier
with data visualization software.