By Mairaj Syed If harnessed effectively, the introduction of LLMs has the potential to transform research in Islamic legal studies because of its unique ability to allow computers to go … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: Knowledge, LLMs, and Open Source Communities in Islamic Legal Scholarship
By Intisar Rabb & Mairaj Syed The invention of the wheel, the printing press, and the internet itself swept over the world in torrents that shaped human interaction with each … Continue reading ::Roundtable:: The Book and AI: How Artificial Intelligence is and is not Changing Islamic Law
By Mairaj Syed Results I initially decided that I would divide up the Testimony chapter into 7-gram word fragments, because the original evidence canon consisted of seven Arabic words. This … Continue reading An Experiment in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Islamic Law :: Part 2 ::
By Mairaj Syed Project Description and Goals As I briefly indicated in my previous blog post, a fundamental desideratum for the field of Islamic law and ethics is a … Continue reading An Experiment in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Islamic Law :: Part 1 ::
By Mairaj Syed Although ethical thought is found in virtually every literary genre of Islamic civilization, it finds the most explicit articulation in works of adab (belles-lettres), akhlāq (virtue ethics), … Continue reading Canons (Qawāʿid) and Reasoning in Islamic Law and Ethics
By Mairaj Syed My book Coercion and Responsibility in Islam seeks to organize the insights of the four conceptual approaches in the previous blog post into a coherent structure. It … Continue reading A New Framework for the Analysis of Islamic Tradition-Bound Rationality
By Mairaj Syed Intellectual production in the premodern period was largely structured by belonging to a given, usually explicit and named, school. This was especially the case for theology and … Continue reading Four Conceptual Frameworks on Tradition-Bound Rationality
