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title: "nusus"
description: "Search and cite classical Islamic and Arabic texts from the Turath library with the nusus CLI."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/nusus
last-updated: 2026-10-10
---

# nusus
Search and cite classical Islamic and Arabic texts from the Turath library with the nusus CLI.
- Slug: nusus
- Publisher: Mikhail Wijanarko
- Repository: https://github.com/mwijanarko1/nusus
- Manifest: plugins/nusus/plugin.json
- Version: 0.1.0
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 1 (turath-research)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 4
- Repository created: 2026-07-15
- Repository last pushed: 2026-10-06
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/nusus
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What nusus does, in the publisher's words

TypeScript SDK, agent CLI, and local MCP server for searching and citing classical Islamic and Arabic texts through Turath, a Shamela-style digital library. Use Nusus to retrieve source text, metadata, citations, locators, and direct links from Arabic heritage books for research tools and AI agents. The nusus binary ships with the SDK; the optional MCP server ships as nusus-mcp.

All three wrap the same retrieval core and return the same citations. Pick by how you (or your agent) work:

Needs Node.js 20+ (ships with npm). If you already have that:

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mwijanarko1/nusus/HEAD/README.md