Islamic Large Language Models: From Knowledge Acquisition to Trustworthy and Hallucination-Resistant AI

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16629v1
• Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:22:36 GMT
• Title: Islamic Large Language Models: From Knowledge Acquisition to Trustworthy and Hallucination-Resistant AI
• Abstract summary: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for knowledge-intensive question answering.<n>This survey reviews the emerging field of Islamic LLMs and trustworthy Islamic AI.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for knowledge-intensive question answering, including religious and legal questions. Islamic knowledge is a particularly demanding setting: answers are expected to be grounded in authoritative sources, citations must be exact, Arabic varieties differ substantially from the language of classical sources, and legitimate jurisprudential disagreement must be represented rather than collapsed into a single answer. This survey reviews the emerging field of Islamic LLMs and trustworthy Islamic AI. We organize the literature around Arabic NLP and Arabic-centric LLMs, Islamic NLP resources, Qur'anic question answering, Islamic knowledge benchmarks, retrieval-augmented generation, Islamic legal reasoning, inheritance reasoning, hallucination evaluation, and trustworthiness. We argue that fluency in Arabic is not sufficient for Islamic AI. Reliable systems require curated sources, retrieval and verification modules, citation-aware generation, madhhab-aware reasoning, human expert evaluation, and benchmarks that measure not only answer accuracy but also faithfulness, source validity, and reasoning quality. The survey concludes with a research agenda for hallucination-resistant Islamic AI systems.

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