Quran MCP Server

Quran Search Engine MCP for AI tools. Provides Quran search, Arabic normalization, and highlighting.

Remote serverstreamable-http

What is the Quran MCP server?

Quran MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Quran directly instead of describing what you should do. Quran Search Engine MCP for AI tools. Provides Quran search, Arabic normalization, and highlighting.

What you get

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that gives AI clients fast, accurate, hallucination-free access to the Quran — search, navigation, and morphology — over stdio and Streamable HTTP.

  • 🔌 MCP compatible — Claude Desktop, Claude Web, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, and others
  • 🌐 Two transports — stdio for local integrations, Streamable HTTP for remote/hosted
  • 🔍 Eight tools — full-text search, surah metadata, verse navigation, lemma/root lookup, morphology
  • 📖 Accurate results — every verse comes from a verified dataset; no LLM in the loop
  • 🛡️ Hardened HTTP — host allow-list, per-IP rate limit, body cap, session reaper, /health

What the assistant can call

Once Quran is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:

  • Resource — URL

Configuration and credentials

  • Node.js 20+ (LTS recommended) - npm, pnpm, or yarn

Setting it up

Being a remote server, there is no local install. You register the endpoint with your client, authorise it once, and the tools appear.

Choosing this one

Plenty of search and retrieval servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Quran's toolset — Resource — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by adelpro; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.

Before you rely on it

  • Your data travels to the provider's service, so the usual questions apply about what you send and what they retain.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the quran mcp server does with a few real requests.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
ResourceURL

How to install the Quran MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "quran-search-engine": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "quran-search-engine-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.

Configuration

  • Node.js 20+ (LTS recommended) - npm, pnpm, or yarn

Example prompts to try

  • Use Quran to Resource.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Quran to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 1 tool (Resource) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Quran directly.