The Future of Islamic Knowledge

We are an organization dedicated to evolving Islamic research for the 21st-century by combining scholarly rigor with AI and other cutting-edge technologies

Our Projects

Bridging Tradition and Technology

As artificial intelligence and online tools transform how the world accesses, analyzes, and preserves knowledge of all types, Islamic knowledge has not kept up. The best platforms are built for the English language, and they train on the existing expanse of the internet–which largely excludes primary sources from the Islamic world, most of which have yet to be digitized. Core texts—spanning law, history, literature and more—often exist only in books on library shelves or scanned pdfs that machines cannot read and, even when they can, provide unstructured formats that the latest digital tools cannot readily use. Our mission is to address this foundational problem by developing the technical infrastructure that enables Islamic texts to be machine-readable, searchable, and analyzable at scale. Our work bridges the gap between longstanding scholarly traditions and modern research technologies. We collaborate with scholars, technologists, and institutions who share a commitment to preserving the depth of the Islamic tradition while making it accessible and analyzable for future generations.

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Our Mission

A New Chapter in Islamic Research

We’re developing the infrastructure to make Islamic scholarship accessible, searchable, and analyzable at scale.

Machine Readability
We build the infrastructure and processes that transform primary sources of classical Islamic works—often only available in scanned, unstructured formats—into machine-readable, searchable, and analyzable digital texts. This foundational work enables computational methods to update access and readability online to a rich and diverse corpus of Islamic scholarship, opening new avenues for rigorous research and reading.
AI-Enhanced Research Tools
Our products leverage advanced AI techniques, including semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (which allows precise citations for queries, in contrast to most hallucinogenic or general AI platforms), to provide scholars with precise, reliable, and context-aware access to Islamic texts. These tools support complex queries and scholarly exploration, with additional capabilities such as transliteration and translation engines in development.
Corpus Development
In collaboration with scholars, we curate and structure authoritative Islamic sources across law, history, literature, and more. By collecting libraries that are comprehensive, researcher-vetted, and in structured-digital form, we ensure that users have access to high-quality, representative collections that reflect the depth and diversity of Islamic knowledge.

Our Projects

Islamic Knowledge, Engineered

Usul.ai

Usul is an AI-powered platform designed to evolve how Islamic research is conducted in the twenty-first century. It leverages the largest digital libraries and offers support for:

15,000+ Islamic Books
AI-Powered Search for Islamic Sources
Curated Islamic Collections (universal corpus to come!)

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Tansis.ai

Tansis converts Arabic text to Latin script using various transliteration standards including:

SHARIAsource
IJMES
ALA-LC
DIN 31635
Buckwalter

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Arabic 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.

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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

The Seemore Foundation is a research-forward nonprofit organization that develops technologies to advance access to and generate insights in Islamic knowledge. Its team brings together experts in AI, engineering, and Islamic studies, working at the intersection of tradition and machine learning to create scalable tools that advance the future of scholarship.