Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine
Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine is an MCP server that adds search and knowledge tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Search and explore the Holy Qur'an with Arabic text, transliteration, and advanced search support. It has 289 GitHub stars, is released under the LGPL-3.0 license and runs locally with uvx alfanous3-mcp.
- AI & search
- LGPL-3.0
- Maintained
Install Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine
Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.
Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"alfanous-quranic-search-engine": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"alfanous3-mcp"
]
}
}
}Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport stdio alfanous-quranic-search-engine -- uvx alfanous3-mcpCursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"alfanous-quranic-search-engine": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"alfanous3-mcp"
]
}
}
}Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.
VS Code
{
"servers": {
"alfanous-quranic-search-engine": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"alfanous3-mcp"
]
}
}
}Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).
About Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine
Alfanous is a Quranic search engine API that provides simple and advanced search capabilities for the Holy Qur'an. It enables developers to build applications that search through Quranic text in Arabic, with support for Buckwalter transliteration, advanced query syntax, and rich metadata.
- quran
- search-engine
- indexing
- arabic
- api
- python
- mcp
- mcp-server
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What is Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine?
Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine is an MCP server that adds search and knowledge tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Search and explore the Holy Qur'an with Arabic text, transliteration, and advanced search support. It has 289 GitHub stars, is released under the LGPL-3.0 license and runs locally with uvx alfanous3-mcp. The source code is at github.com/Alfanous-team/alfanous.
How do I install the Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine MCP server?
Add the command uvx alfanous3-mcp to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.
Is Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine free?
The server is open source under the LGPL-3.0 license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.
Is Alfanous - Quranic Search Engine actively maintained?
The most recent commit was on Jun 14, 2026. The latest release is v1.9.4, published Jun 14, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.