About
What is this site?
Tefekkür is a bilingual (Turkish and English) site that invites reflection. It brings together the signs the Quran points to (seed, water, shadow, sleep…), the Quran's moral vision, and honest answers to hard questions of faith. It is not a "scientific miracles" site: the Quran is not a science textbook. Verses are shown as invitations to reflect; science is described separately, as the research gives it, with its sources.
How was it made?
The idea for this site is Umut's. The research and the code were built with the help of AI (Claude, by Anthropic). The Turkish text of the research, apart from the Quran translations, was also translated with the help of AI.
Where does the content come from?
- All content on the site comes from this project's research documents (five research documents, covering a catalogue of questions, deep answers, signs for reflection and moral themes). Nothing is added to the research's claims; the few small additions needed to build the site (such as the latitudes in the drawings) and the gaps are listed openly in a separate list.
- Most of the English text is copied word for word from the research by a script; 20 pages were moved by hand, and a few lines the research addressed to the site's makers were reworded for readers (each change is logged). The Turkish text is its translation and has not yet been reviewed by a Turkish-speaking scholar.
- Where the research labels a claim, the page keeps the label: Established (scientific or historical consensus), Scholarly (mainstream scholarly interpretation), Debated (contested or minority view).
- Every Honest note in the research is shown on its page, never hidden behind a click.
Quran text and translations
The Arabic is the Tanzil Project's Uthmani text (CC BY 3.0). Translations, unchanged: Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır for Turkish (the simplified edition on Tanzil) and Saheeh International for English. Word-by-word transliteration comes from Quran.com data. Both are used as Tanzil's terms allow: for non-commercial purposes, with attribution. This site is free and non-commercial.
How it was checked — and what is not checked yet
- At the end of each build phase two automated AI review passes were run (not human reviews): one for code, design and accessibility; one for faithfulness to the research, honest notes and sensitive topics. Every must-fix they found was fixed.
- The research itself says parts of it are "a solid first draft" for expert review. The theological content has not yet been reviewed by a theologian, the science by domain experts, or the sensitive pages by a clinician. Until then the site should not be treated as final.
- Accessibility: WCAG 2.2 AA is the target in all four time-of-day palettes, and it is checked with automated tools.