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بيت الحكمة BAYT AL-HIKMA

HOUSE OF WISDOM

Knowledge made accessible.

We are an independent institution. We share knowledge and build tools for understanding and studying Islamic texts.

Our work

The Institution

المؤسسة
An illustrated wall of shelves, each arched niche holding stacked bound volumes.

We take our name from the House of Wisdom of the Islamic Golden Age. There, scholars translated and studied the texts of their age and the ages before them. They worked so that they and those after them could study and invent. We aim to do the same with the tools of our age, in shaʾ Allah.

What we have built

Principles

المبادئ

وقل رب زدنى علما

And say: My Lord, increase me in knowledge.

Qurʾan 20:114

Scholarship

We return to the sources and read them without the bias of our own age or the ages before us.

Accessibility

We build to benefit every soul, because the revelation was sent as a mercy to all the worlds.

Continuity

We build on what we inherited, to benefit those who come after us.

Works

الأعمال

Forthcoming

قيد الإعداد
  1. الحفظHifdh

    Guidance through memorising the Qurʾan, for anyone without a teacher nearby.

    IN PREPARATION

  2. المساعدAI Assistant

    An AI model trained on the texts and the jurisprudence. It will point you to sources and explain them. It will not issue rulings.

    IN PREPARATION

  3. المكتبةLibrary

    Classical and modern texts, collected and made readable online.

    IN PREPARATION

  4. المحاضراتLectures

    Single talks and lecture series.

    IN PREPARATION

  5. الرسائلPublications

    Essays and research.

    IN PREPARATION