::Roundtable:: Knowledge, LLMs, and Open Source Communities in Islamic Legal Scholarship

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

::Roundtable:: The Book and AI: How Artificial Intelligence is and is not Changing Islamic Law

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

CnC Spotlight: Mairaj Syed

The Courts & Canons (CnC) Project at SHARIAsource leverages data science tools to explore questions in Islamic law and society historically through mapping the controversies and values reflected in courts (from taʾrīkh, … Continue reading CnC Spotlight: Mairaj Syed

Islam and Data Science Roundup

Our May guest blog editor, Professor Mairaj Syed, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at University of California- Davis, wrote "An Experiment in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Islamic Law,"  a … Continue reading Islam and Data Science Roundup