Otvet_islam

Otvet_islam is a Russian corpus of Islamic religious Q&A texts (questions and published answers), including fatwas and expert replies, collected from several Russian web portals in January 2026.

Sources

• muftiyatrd.ru — the official website of the Muftiate of the Republic of Dagestan (regional Muslim religious administration); Dagestan (North Caucasus, Russia). Sufi traditions are institutionally visible (including Naqshbandiyya and Shadhiliyya lineages).
• islamdag.ru — an Islamic information and analytical portal based in the Republic of Dagestan (North Caucasus, Russia).
• islam-today.ru — a Russian-language Islamic media portal (news and religious materials) with a Russia-wide scope; the corpus uses its Q&A / advisory materials. The portal includes substantial coverage of the Volga region (including Tatarstan) and projects focused on Tatar Islamic scholarship.
• islam.ru — a Russian-language Islamic portal with news and religious materials; Russia-wide scope.
• azan.ru — an Islamic educational and media portal; it explicitly positions itself as promoting “true Sunnism” and publishes structured materials in Islamic disciplines (including fiqh).

Regional note: in the Volga region (including Tatarstan), the Sunni tradition is predominant and the Hanafi madhhab is commonly associated with local Tatar Muslim religious practice.

In Dagestan, Sunni Islam is predominant; the Shafi‘i madhhab is the most widespread, while the Hanafi madhhab is also represented.

Answers in this corpus are authored by Islamic scholars, muftis, and imams representing different regions of Russia.

Document structure

• <doc> metadata includes (depending on source availability): doc.portal, doc.author, doc.pubdate, doc.pubyear, doc.question, doc.text_id, doc.url.
• Q&A segmentation: <question> and <answer>.
• 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.

Size (current index)

Portal distribution

How to cite

Fisun, Roman. 2026. Otvet_islam: Russian Islamic Q&A Corpus. Compiled from muftiyatrd.ru, islam-today.ru, islam.ru, islamdag.ru, azan.ru (data collected in January 2026). Available at: https://corpora.fisun.org/ (corpus name: otvet_islam). 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