In His Name, the Most High
Sending an AI model to the Hawza
IlmFlow builds tools for the students and teachers of the hawza, and with their help, a model that learns the hawza’s method: why a ruling is a ruling, with its references, and every machine output labelled as one.
The goal
The long-term goal is a model trained in the hawza’s method, by the hawza’s own scholars and students: why a ruling is a ruling, with its references, and every machine output labelled as one.
It is sent to the hawza the way a student is: to learn how the scholars reason, from the people who do it.
How it learns
It begins in the classroom. In Daftar, teachers and students record their lessons and mubahatha if they choose, and write the questions and answers those lessons teach, with their sources. A second scholar reviews every one.
The reviewed records become training pairs, the examples a model learns from. They teach the method rather than a list of rulings: as Daftar’s own guide puts it, a fine-tune learns habits, not facts. How the model learns.
We do the technology. The hawza does the scholarship.
A student needs more than classes
Each of those needs is a tool.
Classes and mubahathaDaftarWhere teachers and students keep what their lessons teach, as reviewed questions and answers.By invitation or on request
BooksFihristA finding aid for a library of Arabic, Persian and English books: it finds the book and the page, and shows you the page.By invitation or on request
Lectures from the great scholarsSafinaAn archive of the scholars’ lectures, lessons and sermons, kept word for word as their own sites publish them.By invitation or on request
A place to work, write and researchDiwanThe writing desk: every word kept exactly, with every revision and who made it.By invitation or on request
The narrators of the hadithSanadThe narrators who transmitted the hadith, and what each book of rijal says about them.not yet live
How far each has come
Where each tool stands today, and the whole. These are our own estimates, corrected as the work moves.
DaftarLiveTranscribing recorded lessons on our own machines, so review can return to the lesson’s own words.
FihristGrowingThe hawza’s books as its publishing house sends them, and the Arabic books that exist only as scans.
SafinaGrowingMore of the great scholars’ lectures from their own sites, and translation on request, labelled as a machine’s.
DiwanLiveSharing a single piece of work with a named reader.
SanadPlannedIts requirements, written with the scholars who will use it; then the books of rijal.
The whole: the AI modelBuildingThe first reviewed training pairs from the hawza’s lessons.
Open to collaboration
If you teach or study in the hawza, publish its books, or want its method carried with its references, we would like to hear from you.