The Future of Islamic Knowledge

We're an applied research lab pioneering Islamic knowledge access through cutting-edge AI

Building for The AI Age

We’re transitioning into an AI-first world. Islamic Knowledge is not ready for the transition. AIs cannot process the majority of the Islamic texts today because they’re in non-machine readable formats such as scanned PDFs, or in some cases, only available in physical copies. Texts often lack the required metadata or proper cataloging needed for AIs to to retrieve and access them. To have a future where Islamic knowledge is at the forefront of the AI revolution, we need resources a full-time team tackling this problem. This is what we’re set out to do.

If shaping the future of Islamic knowledge excites you, let's get in touch.

Our Vision

Unlocking the Past, Shaping the Future

Digitizing centuries of knowledge and building for an AI-first future

Digitization
The majority of Islamic texts are in non-machine readable formats like scanned PDFs. AIs cannot process or search these texts. We're building the infrastructure to digitize them at scale.
Agents
Researching Islamic texts is time-consuming and relies on primitive tooling. We're adopting state-of-the-art AI tools to make research faster, easier, and more insightful.

Our Projects

Shipping at Startup Speed

Usul.ai

Usul is an AI-native platform for researching Islamic texts. It builds on top of the largest digital libraries and supports:

10,000+ Islamic Books
AI-powered answers using RAG
Semantic and Keyword Search
Research Agent (soon)

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OCR

A state-of-the-art Arabic OCR model using recent breakthroughs in Vision LLMs. We're using and improving the model internally. Stay tuned for the public release.

Coming Soon

Core Corpus

Working with scholars to identify the most important works in each Islamic disclipline. We make sure that these texts are digitally accessible and have the correct metadata.

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AI Translations

Make Islamic texts accessible to people worldwide. AIs are still unable to reliably translate texts while being true to the source. We're tackling this once the technology matures.

Future Project

Team

Meet the Team Behind our Mission

We're a group of technologists and scholars bringing expertise from Harvard, UPenn, Twitter, and Quran.com working at the intersection of AI and Islamic research.