Shamela
Coming soonShamela: Islamic Library
Shamela brings the great Arabic library to the phone: more than 7,000 classical books of hadith, tafsir, fiqh, history and language from al-Maktaba al-Shamela. Download a book in seconds and read it offline in a calm reader.
Coming soon to Google Play and the App Store
- Platforms
- Android, iOS
- Languages
- Arabic, English
- Price
- Free. No in-app purchases. The app does not display ads.
- Account
- No account, email address or sign-up is required.
What Shamela does
A library in your pocket
- Browse 40 categories and authors by year of death
- Bibliography card and contents before you download
- Title and author search that ignores diacritics
Read comfortably
- Amiri Naskh or Cairo font, adjustable size
- Footnotes under each page
- Volume and page numbers of the printed edition
Study tools
- Bookmarks, yellow and blue highlights, notes
- Copy text with the book and page reference
- Downloaded books work without internet
Your data
What you read, your bookmarks, highlights and notes are never sent to Tazwat Technology. We have no server that receives them.
Shamela does not display ads, does not collect usage analytics and does not use advertising identifiers.
Privacy policyTerms of service
Android package com.tazwat.shamela
How we built it
- Kotlin Multiplatform
- Custom book data pipeline to SQLite
- Full-text Arabic search
- RTL reader
Designed, built, released and maintained by Tazwat Technology in Casablanca. We take on client projects with the same tools and standards.
Have an app in mind?
Tell us what it should do and who it is for. We’ll reply with questions, a rough plan and an estimate — whether it’s a new app, a web platform or firmware for a device.
- [email protected]
- +212 6 66 97 42 24
- Casablanca, Morocco