Islamopedia

This is an open-source project created to build a tool that helps people learn about Islam. The long-term plan is to train AI to help scholars in doing research, comparative analysis, crafting research papers, journals, or even books, and a layman to have everything about Islam in their hands.

The first and most important purpose is to break the language barrier to read about must-known things. The second most important purpose is to build a community working together and providing high-quality work by ensuring strict quality standards. We want to bring critical thinking and comparative analysis into a visible and accessible academic discourse instead of just talking about it. It will help the scholars to research each single Hadees by having all the books of Hadith, Biographies, and other scholars' comments in one place. It is going to be fun. InshaAllah

One issue will be created and referenced here for each point, Further details can be discussed over there in that specific context.

Following are the basic initial components that we are going to add to our website.

1. A good Book reading tool with a couple of cool features #1
2. Each book must have general information about it #2
3. A good document writer with a cool referencing mechanism
4. A good PDF generator to download the book and save it for later use
5. A transparent way of reviewing all of the texts that are being uploaded #3
6. Multi-lingual capabilities
   1. This site will be offered initially in English and Urdu and later to other languages as team is expanded
   2. Default translations would be offered according to the locale of the user
7. Personal features are available only if a user is logged in
   1. Bookmarks
   2. Notes
   3. Text highlighting
   4. Document crafting
8. More details about actual books can be seen in the helper repository
9. Information about the team contributing to this project
   1. Developers
   2. Translators
   3. Typewriters
   4. Researchers
   5. Donors (If they want their names to be displayed)
10. Technical aspects
    1. Development, deployment and testing
    2. Local development environment setup
    3. Contribution, code review and maintenance mechanism
11. Documentation
    1. General information on the tech stack provided to end users
    2. Information regarding the support they can provide in our open-source project
12. We will later introduce the Orators feature where books can be listened to as Audio Books.
13. We will later introduce AI support which will bring the information for us from the trained data e.g. Give me details about when Person1 met with Person2 and how many Ahadith they have with the same chain of Narration etc.