Islam-today

Islam-today is a Russian corpus compiled from the Islamic portal Islam-today.ru, excluding Q&A content; collected in January 2026.

Source

islam-today.ru (non-Q&A content)

About the portal (Islam-today.ru)

In its self-description, Islam-today.ru states that the ideological basis of the website is rooted in Islamic traditions historically characteristic of Muslims of Tatarstan and Russia.

The portal describes itself as a federal information-and-analytical project opened in 2012, and presents “openness, speed, and objectivity” as its journalistic motto.

The site also features content and author sections linked to Tatarstan’s Islamic institutions; for example, it maintains a dedicated blog section for Kamil khazrat Samigullin (Mufti and Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Republic of Tatarstan, DUM RT).

Sections (site navigation)

At the time of data collection (Jan 2026), the portal navigation included (among others) the following major section groups:

News: “In the world” (Middle East, Central Asia & Iran, West, Arab world & Africa, Turkey, Other) and “In Russia” (incl. Tatarstan), plus topic streams such as Economy, Politics, Society, Education, Culture, Science & Technology, Sport, and other news.
Religion & practice: creed/faith and worship; ethics; materials “for beginners”; prayers/duas; books/online resources; press releases; “Woman in Islam” (relationships, children, beauty & health).
Opinion formats: blogs (including a dedicated section for Kamil khazrat Samigullin) and other author-driven content.
Services / media: Radio Azan; games; “photo of the day” / “video of the day”.
Q&A / fatwas: sections labelled “Fatwas” and “Question–Answer”.

Scope and exclusions

Topical scope: the corpus prioritizes texts where Islam/Muslims are a central topic (religion, religious practice, community life, Islamic culture, and news framed through an Islamic perspective). Purely general political news without an explicit Islamic/muslim angle is not included.
Q&A excluded: the “Question–Answer” materials from Islam-today.ru and other Russian islamic portals are compiled as a separate corpus: islamic_answers (same portal; separated due to strong genre differences).
Media formats excluded
Empty/irrelevant sections: site sections that contained no usable textual content at the time of collection (Jan 2026) are absent from the corpus by design.

Document structure

<doc> metadata: doc.portal, doc.language, doc.author, doc.status, doc.title, doc.pubdate, doc.pubyear, doc.source, doc.url, doc.rubric, doc.text_id.
Sentence segmentation: <s>.

Linguistic annotation

The corpus is annotated in the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework using UDPipe (lemmatization and UPOS tagging; morphological features in UD FEATS format).

The tagger/lemmatizer model is based on UD Russian SynTagRus.

Tagset and annotation notes: corpora.fisun.org/corpus-pages/tagset.html.

Corpus attributes

Positional attributes: id, word, lemma, pos, morph, head, deprel, and dynamic lc (plus lemma_lc, if enabled in the registry).

Size (current index)

Item	Count
Tokens	7,170,001
Words	5,777,586
Sentences (`<s>`)	390,995
Documents (`<doc>`)	9,498

Lexicon sizes

Attribute	Count
`id`	249
`word`	326,702
`lemma`	174,873
`pos`	17
`morph`	551
`head`	237
`deprel`	38
`lc`	297,013
`lemma_lc`	163,016

Text types (metadata inventory)

The corpus defines <doc> with 11 attributes and <s>.

Structure	Attribute	Distinct values
`<doc>`	`doc.author`	1,685
`<doc>`	`doc.language`	1
`<doc>`	`doc.portal`	1
`<doc>`	`doc.pubdate`	3,332
`<doc>`	`doc.pubyear`	16
`<doc>`	`doc.rubric`	45
`<doc>`	`doc.source`	1
`<doc>`	`doc.status`	13
`<doc>`	`doc.text_id`	9,498
`<doc>`	`doc.title`	9,415
`<doc>`	`doc.url`	9,498

How to cite

Fisun, Roman. 2026. Islam-today: Russian Islamic portal corpus. Compiled from Islam-today.ru (data collected in January 2026; Q&A excluded). Available at: https://corpora.fisun.org/ (corpus name: islam-today). Accessed: <YYYY-MM-DD>.

Software

NoSketch Engine (corpus query system): sketchengine.eu/nosketch-engine
UDPipe (tokenization/lemmatization/tagging): ufal.mff.cuni.cz/udpipe

Terms of use

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Contact

Maintainer: roman.fisun@ur.de