::Roundtable:: Knowledge, LLMs, and Open Source Communities in Islamic Legal Scholarship

::Roundtable:: Knowledge, LLMs, and Open Source Communities in Islamic Legal Scholarship

By Mairaj Syed If harnessed effectively, the introduction of LLMs has the potential to transform research in Islamic legal studies because of its unique ability to allow computers to go beyond the literal phrasing of texts to recognize the deeper semantic patterns across vast corpora. This transformation would not be unprecedented. At its core, scholarship involves gathering data, organizing it in some way, synthesizing it in order to add new kn…