The Future of Islamic knowledge, powered by AI

Help us build the biggest library, ensure the widest access, and facilitate the boldest research in Islamic knowledge for the 21st century.

With your support, Usul has made thousands of historical texts more accessible, reaching tens of thousands of users around the world.

Achievements

Expanding Access to Islamic Texts

  • Collecting and making accessible in one place over 15,000 digitized Islamic sources in PDF and eBook format, with a clean, readable format.

  • Transforming static PDFs into structured, machine-readable formats for easier search and analysis.

Enhancing Research with AI-Powered Tools

  • Advanced search capabilities that allow users to quickly locate precise information.

  • AI-powered assistants that allow researchers to navigate large volumes of text with ease.

Enabling Large-Scale Analysis

Supporting large-scale, cross-textual analysis that opens new possibilities for Islamic research. Enabling efficient navigation of vast Islamic textual sources by making thousands of credible works searchable at once, researchers can use Usul to trace concepts and patterns across genres with speed and precision.

Usul’s Roadmap: Our Vision for the Future

Your donations will help us achieve the following goals:

AI-Powered Search for Islamic Sources

  • Incorporate state-of-the-art search tools and the latest AI models to enable researchers to quickly locate precise information.

  • Enable efficient navigation of vast Islamic textual sources.

Curated Islamic Collections

  • Collaborate with leading scholars to develop a representative “core corpus” across all major Islamic fields.

  • Create curated collections tailored to various genres.

Universal Corpus

  • Build the infrastructure and partnerships with libraries and other online repositories to house a universal, comprehensive corpus of texts in structured digital formats.

  • Ensure that, as the world of online knowledge grows, all works are accessible, searchable, and analyzable.

Support Usul’s Mission

Your contribution enables the development of short-term research and it sustains the long-term development of innovative tools for Islamic research.

Why support Usul?

  • Accelerate Islamic research into cutting edge problems of the day that require quick analysis across vast resources–from ethical Islamic AI and governance to how and whether to use AI to produce legal opinions, medical diagnoses, and financial matters
  • Accelerate Islamic education and Islamic knowledge more generally, by building the infrastructure for use in global schools, universities, and courts in need of reliable ‘internal’ or comparative Islamic research tools
  • Play a vital role in shaping the future of how Islam is preserved and studied