In His Name, the Most High
The Tools
A student needs more than classes. Each of those needs is a tool, and each tool keeps what it holds with its source.
Classes and mubahatha
Daftar
Live60%
An invitation-only workbook. Teachers and students of the hawza record a lesson if they choose, and write the questions and answers it teaches, with their sources; the form checks each entry as it is written, and a second scholar reviews it.
Nothing is written from someone’s lesson without them: the person who taught it decides what it says. Recordings and records stay their author’s, for life. Daftar works in English, Farsi and Arabic.
Who it serves: The teachers and students who contribute, and the scholars who review.
Transcribing recorded lessons on our own machines, so review can return to the lesson’s own words.
By invitation or on request
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Books
Fihrist
Growing70%
Search a phrase, and Fihrist tells you the book and the page, and shows you the page itself.
It never supplies quotable text. A person reads the page before anything is quoted, and every machine reading of a page is marked as one.
Who it serves: Researchers, and the writers of the Truth Promoters series.
The hawza’s books as its publishing house sends them, and the Arabic books that exist only as scans.
By invitation or on request
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Lectures from the great scholars
Safina
Growing45%
Safina keeps each text exactly as the scholar’s own site served it: where and when it was read, a new version whenever the site changes it, and the recording where there is one. It keeps them with the permission of the scholars’ offices.
A term can be traced through the lessons in the order they were given, and a passage quoted in its exact words.
Who it serves: Researchers, and readers of the scholars’ lectures.
More of the great scholars’ lectures from their own sites, and translation on request, labelled as a machine’s.
By invitation or on request
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A place to work, write and research
Diwan
Live65%
Diwan keeps the project’s written work character for character, with every revision and who made it. Work marked complete can no longer change, and a quotation can be locked to its source’s exact words.
Its work is private: only the people invited can read it.
Who it serves: The project’s writers, and the readers they invite.
Sharing a single piece of work with a named reader.
By invitation or on request
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The narrators of the hadith
Sanad
Planned5%
A map of the narrators of hadith: their chains, their teachers and students, and what each book of rijal says about them. Every statement is attributed to its book and page, never merged into a verdict of its own.
In Sanad’s own words: we do the technology; the scholars judge the narrators.
Who it serves: Scholars of hadith and rijal.
Its requirements, written with the scholars who will use it; then the books of rijal.
Sanad · not yet live