Research & Publications

An uṣūlī reading of the place of artificial intelligence in the development of the science of tafsīr

This paper addresses an epistemological question that moves beyond the direct technical use of artificial intelligence in tafsīr to something deeper: is Qur’anic exegesis a science capable of renewal in response to the renewal of reality and of the tools of knowledge — and where does artificial intelligence fall within this trajectory? The paper pr…

From the Eligibility of the Mufti to the Fatwa Ecosystem

A research monograph that develops and expands a peer-reviewed paper originally presented at the 15th Annual Imams' Conference of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) in 2018, to address our era's new questions: How do we approach fatwa in the age of short-form video and generative AI? Organized in ten chapters across three sections (Fo…

Challenges and Solutions

A peer-reviewed paper presented at the 10th World Conference of the General Secretariat for Houses and Bodies of Iftaa Worldwide (Cairo, August 2025), held under the theme "Forming the Wise Mufti in the Age of Artificial Intelligence." The paper maps the reality of digital fatwa in the United States, tracing the technical, linguistic, and cultural …

A peer-reviewed paper presented at the 15th Annual Imams' Conference of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) in Houston, February 2018. The paper offers precise definitions of fatwa, mufti, mustafti (questioner), eligibility, and chaos. It then examines the conditions of the mufti across three categories (legal capacity, scholarly, and …