Islam-today

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

Source

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

About the portal

According to its self-description, islam-today.ru is rooted in Islamic traditions historically characteristic of Muslims in Tatarstan and Russia.

The portal describes itself as a federal information and analytical project launched in 2012, with the journalistic motto “openness, speed, and objectivity”.

The site features content and author sections linked to Tatarstan’s Islamic institutions, including 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

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

News: “In the world” (Middle East, Central Asia & Iran, West, Arab world & Africa, Turkey, Other) and “In Russia” (including 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” (excluded from this corpus).

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 angle is excluded.
Q&A excluded: “Question–Answer” materials from islam-today.ru are compiled as a separate corpus: Otvet_islam (same portal; separated due to strong genre differences).
Media formats excluded: audio, video, images, and other non-textual content.
Empty/irrelevant sections: site sections that contained no usable textual content at the time of collection (January 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 within the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework using UDPipe for lemmatization and UPOS tagging, with morphological features in UD FEATS format.

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

For the tagset and annotation notes, see: 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

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

Metadata inventory

The corpus defines <doc> with 11 attributes.

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 content 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, and tagging): ufal.mff.cuni.cz/udpipe

Terms of use

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Contact

name.surname [at] ur.de