What is this site about?
- Classical Islamic scholarship (tafsir, hadith, fiqh, kalam, Arabic language)
- Digital humanities and artificial intelligence (corpora, NLP, OCR, machine learning…etc)
The goal is not to replace one with the other. It is to build bridges.
Who is behind this site?
This site is conceived, designed, and developed by a researcher passionate about the intersection of Islamic studies, digital humanities, and AI.
It is a space for sharing resources, experiments, and reflections.
What will you find here?
Classical Islamic Studies
Qur'anic studies, hadith, sira, fiqh, kalam, usul, Arabic language and lexicography.
Digital Humanities
Corpora, text encoding, digital editions, visualization, mapping, network analysis, open access resources.
AI Tools & Methods
OCR for Arabic manuscripts, NLP for classical Arabic, LLMs, machine learning for scribe identification, semantic search.
News & Breakthroughs
Publications, tools, datasets, conferences, experiments, case studies.
Resources & Links
Bibliographies, open corpora, tutorials, code, external projects.
My approach
Traditional scholarship first. Digital tools second. AI as assistant, not authority.
Contact
Feel free to reach me via the Contact page or at contact@digitalislamicstudies.com