In “Introducing Text Evaluation using LabelStudio” (KitLab) Mathew Barber (Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations) and Peter Verkinderen (Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations) introduce the KITAB-Transform project focused on “training language models to identify ‘transformative’ text reuse (such as paraphrase and translation) in the OpenITI corpus.”… CONTINUE READING
In “Digital Eschatology in Islamicate Traditions: a Comparative Study of Inter-Religious Prophecies” (Journal of Digital Islamicate Research), Mohammed Qasim Khan (University of Malaya) suggests that “AI-produced religious texts tend to support conventional theological doctrines and, at the same time, allow the emergence of novel links between Islamic, Christian and Jewish apocalypticism.” [login required] In “Artificial… CONTINUE READING
In “YallaMorph: A Benchmark for Evaluating Arabic Morphological Generation in Large Language Models” (ArXiv), Mahmoud Reda (New York University Abu Dhabi) and others debut “YallaMorph, a large-scale benchmark for Arabic morphological generation covering verbs, nouns, adjectives, their cliticized forms, and invalid configurations.… [The] results show that Arabic morphological generation remains difficult, especially for cliticized, unseen,… CONTINUE READING
In “The Disruption of Islamic Religious Education Curricula in the Artificial Intelligence Era and the Problem of Intolerance Among Modern Multicultural Students” (Jurnal Hasil Penelitian dan Pengabdian Masyarakat), Robiatul Adawiyah (University of Indonesia) and others conclude that, “AI disruption has transformed the PAI [Islamic Religious Education] learning paradigm into a more digital, flexible, and interactive… CONTINUE READING
In Digital Humanities for Arabic and Islamic Studies (Brill Academic Publishers), Maxim Romanov (University of Hamburg) “demonstrates how computational tools can illuminate long-term cultural and linguistic developments across the Islamic world. Through accessible case studies on terminology tracing, genre modeling, and linguistic change, the book shows how digital methods expand rather than replace traditional scholarship.”
In “Machines Referencing the Qurʾan: Citation Patterns in LLM-Generated Islam” (Journal of Digital Islamicate Research), Jonas Svensson (Linnaeus University) concludes that, “LLM s produce theologically differentiated citation patterns broadly consistent with known positions in Islamic discourse… [and] that non-human Islam, while mechanistically novel, exhibits structure, patterns, and theological coherence warranting sustained academic attention.”
In “Beyond Automation: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Islamic Education in Higher Education” (Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan dan Sains Islam Interdisipliner), Muhammad Hazmi Firdaus (Institut Agama Islam Hamzanwadi Pancor) analyzes “how AI is reconfiguring Islamic higher education and what this transformation means for the classical Islamic distinction between ta’lim (instruction or knowledge transfer) and ta’dib… CONTINUE READING
In “Artificial Intelligence in Qur’anic Interpretation: A Theological and Ethical Analysis” (Journal of Islamic Thought and Philosophy), Nehru Millat Ahmad (Sekolah Tinggi Islam Kendal) argues that “the development of Artificial Intelligence in the modern era has significantly transformed various aspects of human life, including Qur’anic studies and interpretation. Although AI enhances accessibility and efficiency in… CONTINUE READING
In “Can Islam Be Renewed In The Twenty-First Century? Revisiting Tajdīd, Ijtihād, And The Future Of Islamic Civilization” (Eurasia Review), Mohamed Chtatou (Mohammed V University) argues that “authentic 21st-century renewal requires combining reformist creativity (especially through the higher objectives of the Sharīʿah / maqāṣid) with traditionalist safeguards of scholarly rigor and continuity, enabling Muslims to… CONTINUE READING
In “Islamic Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence” (Islam Online), Musa A. Mosiudi (Islam Online) writes, “As autonomous algorithms begin to mimic human cognition and tools like CRISPR-Cas9 afford scientists the ability to rewrite the biological code of living organisms, humanity is forced to confront existential questions regarding identity, agency, and responsibility. For Muslims, these rapid shifts… CONTINUE READING
