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Al-Qarawiyyin: Jurnal Ilmu Ushuluddin
Published by Yayasan Albahriah Jamiah Indonesia
ISSN : 31091946     EISSN : 31091954     DOI : https://doi.org/10.64691/al-qarawiyyin
Core Subject : Religion, Humanities, Education, Social,
Religion Humanities Education Social Sciences Other
Al-Qarawiyyin: Jurnal Ilmu Ushuluddin merupakan jurnal ilmiah yang memfokuskan kajiannya pada pengembangan dan pendalaman ilmu Ushuluddin, meliputi bidang-bidang seperti akidah dan filsafat Islam, tafsir dan ilmu Al-Quran, hadis dan ilmu hadis, serta pemikiran Islam kontemporer. Jurnal ini merupakan wadah akademik bagi para peneliti, dosen, mahasiswa, dan praktisi Islam untuk menyampaikan gagasan dan hasil penelitian berdasarkan pendekatan normatif-teologis dan kontekstual-kritis. Dengan memperhatikan perkembangan isu-isu keagamaan yang relevan, Al-Qarawiyyin berperan penting dalam memperkuat tradisi keilmuan Islam yang bersumber dari khazanah klasik namun tetap adaptif terhadap tantangan zaman. Diterbitkan secara berkala oleh Yayasan Albahriah Jamiah Indonesia yang berkomitmen pada pengembangan studi Islam, Al-Qarawiyyin: Jurnal Ilmu Ushuluddin menjunjung tinggi standar akademik dan etika publikasi ilmiah. Setiap artikel yang diterbitkan melalui proses peer-review yang ketat dan ditulis oleh akademisi dari berbagai latar belakang, baik nasional maupun internasional. Selain berfungsi sebagai media penyebarluasan ilmu pengetahuan, jurnal ini juga diharapkan menjadi rujukan penting dalam pengembangan kurikulum kajian Ushuluddin dan pembentukan pemikiran Islam yang inklusif, moderat, dan berdialog dengan realitas sosial kontemporer.
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Epistemology of Interpretation in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Authority, Validity, and the Limits of AI’s Role in Quranic Interpretation Bagasharov, Akhmetkazy; Zhantaeva, Mamyrova; Khalizhan, Kuzembayeva; Kurmanbayev, Yemelianova; Khaydarov, Nurgazy
Al-Qarawiyyin: Jurnal Ilmu Ushuluddin Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026): The Future of Quranic Studies in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.64691/21y5h822

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The development of artificial intelligence in Islamic studies has transformed the landscape of the production and circulation of Quranic exegetical knowledge, while simultaneously raising epistemological issues that have not been systematically discussed, particularly regarding the shift in interpretive authority, the criteria for the validity of exegetical expertise, and the limits of technology’s role in understanding the sacred text. Previous studies tend to position AI as a technical instrument or discuss it normatively, while its epistemological implications for the structure and legitimacy of exegesis have received little attention. This article critically analyzes the relationship between Quranic exegesis and artificial intelligence by formulating the epistemological limits of AI’s role within the framework of contemporary exegetical epistemology. This study employs a qualitative approach, utilizing an epistemological-critical analysis method grounded in Islamic epistemology and contemporary philosophy of science, as reflected in classical and modern exegetical literature. The results reveal a shift in the pattern of exegetical authority, where AI serves as an epistemic mediator that facilitates linguistic, intertextual, and comparative analysis while remaining dependent on human interpretative authority. The construction of the data corpus determines the validity of AI-based interpretation, the epistemic assumptions internalized in the algorithm, and AI’s limitations in capturing the historical, social, and discursive context of the Quran. AI also lacks the reflective capacity, hermeneutic intentionality, and intellectual accountability that are essential requirements for interpretation. In conclusion, AI must be epistemologically positioned as an analytical aid, not an authoritative source of interpretation, with theoretical implications that strengthen the epistemological framework of interpretation, making it adaptive to technology without obscuring the principles of scientific validity and the authority of human interpreters.
The Contestation of Interpretational Authority between ʻUlamāʻ and Artificial Intelligence: A Critical Study of AI Epistemology in Quranic Studies Berg, Kutsal van den; Bedner, Bart; Zheng, Martijn; Grote, Philipp; Shema, Alisha
Al-Qarawiyyin: Jurnal Ilmu Ushuluddin Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026): The Future of Quranic Studies in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.64691/dh6rwb84

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The development of artificial intelligence in the analysis of religious texts has encouraged its use in Quranic studies, including in the practice of interpretation, which, in turn, raises fundamental epistemological issues in the form of contestation over interpretive authority between ʻulamāʻ as interpretive subjects and AI as a computational system. This issue not only addresses the technical aspects of producing meaning but also challenges the legitimacy of knowledge, sources of epistemic authority, and standards of interpretive validity. To date, studies that systematically formulate the epistemic boundaries and position of AI authority within the epistemological framework of Quranic interpretation are still relatively limited. This study aims to critically and conceptually analyze the epistemology of AI in Quranic studies, thereby confirming the position and limits of interpretive authority between ʻulamāʻ and artificial intelligence. This study employs a qualitative method, drawing on library studies of classical and contemporary interpretation literature, philosophy of science, and critical technology studies, with a philosophical-epistemological and hermeneutic analysis approach. The results of this study indicate that AI operates at the instrumental-operational level by processing textual data, linguistic statistics, and syntactic patterns, without the capacity for intentionality, historical awareness, and normative reflection, which are the epistemic prerequisites for Quranic interpretation. This finding confirms that the epistemic authority of interpretation remains with the ʻulamāʻ due to their involvement in hermeneutic awareness, mastery of scientific traditions, methodological responsibility, and ethical dimensions in the production of meaning. This study also reveals that the uncontrolled integration of AI has the potential to shift the standard of interpretation validity from epistemological considerations to the logic of technological efficiency. In conclusion, this study strengthens the epistemology of contemporary interpretation by formulating a relational framework that positions AI as a limited epistemic tool, rather than as a holder of interpretive authority.
The Transformation of Quranic Studies in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: An Epistemological Shift from Classical Scientific Tradition to the Digital Ecosystem Safrizal, Muhammad; Baker, Stephen; Peterson, Josef; Amaefule, Zara; Hamad, Khalid S
Al-Qarawiyyin: Jurnal Ilmu Ushuluddin Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026): The Future of Quranic Studies in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.64691/d45aj033

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The development of artificial intelligence as a digital knowledge infrastructure has fundamentally changed the landscape of contemporary Quranic studies. Unlike previous approaches that tended to position technology as an assistive instrument, the integration of AI in the form of semantic search engines, natural language processing, and interpretation recommendation systems presents epistemological issues that have not been systematically studied, particularly regarding the shift in knowledge sources, truth validation mechanisms, and the configuration of interpretive subjects within the Quranic scholarly tradition. This study aims to critically analyze the epistemological transformation of Quranic studies from a classical scientific framework to an AI-based digital ecosystem, focusing on the reconstruction of knowledge authority, changes in interpretive methodology, and the restructuring of subject-knowledge relations. This study uses a qualitative method with an epistemological-critical approach, analyzing the latest academic literature in the field of Quranic studies and technology, as well as a conceptual review of concrete practices of AI utilization in digital Quranic studies. The results show that the integration of AI triggers a multidimensional epistemological shift, namely: first, the reconstruction of knowledge sources from the authority of scholars and texts to an aggregative algorithmic database; Second, the transformation of interpretive methodology from in-depth, discipline-based reading to rapid, computationally-assisted analysis; Third, the shift in truth validation mechanisms from scientific consensus to technological and statistical verification; Fourth, the emergence of new epistemic subjects that do not fully fall within the framework of conventional scholars or academics. These findings emphasize that AI is epistemologically non-neutral and forms a new logic of knowledge production that demands theoretical reformulation in the epistemology of contemporary Quranic studies.
Integration of Artificial Intelligence in the Science of Tafsīr: A Critical Analysis of Opportunities and Challenges for Contemporary Quranic Studies Kabir, Yazdan; Hammond, Klapdor; Drennen, Ernest; Jemali, Sarah; Dastyari, Rekha
Al-Qarawiyyin: Jurnal Ilmu Ushuluddin Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026): The Future of Quranic Studies in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.64691/3zsxrs39

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The integration of artificial intelligence into Quranic studies marks a significant transformation in contemporary interpretive practices. However, existing studies remain dominated by technical and normative approaches, lacking adequate epistemological-critical analysis. This situation raises fundamental issues regarding the relationship between algorithmic logic and the interpretive principles of tafsīr, which are contextual, reflective, and historical. This study aims to critically analyze the epistemological opportunities and challenges of AI integration into tafsīr and to formulate the boundaries and epistemic functions of AI within contemporary tafsīr methodology. The study uses a qualitative-analytical approach with a critical literature study design, drawing on classical and modern tafsīr literature, the philosophy of science, and cutting-edge digital humanities studies. The analysis is conducted through a hermeneutical-critical reading and a conceptual-comparative analysis of claims of objectivity in technology and interpretive practices. The results show that AI has the potential to strengthen tafsīr studies by processing large corpora, mapping intertextuality across tafsīrs, and systematically identifying linguistic patterns in the Quran, thereby opening up previously difficult-to-reach analytical horizons. However, this study also uncovered three major challenges: the tendency to positivize meaning due to the reduction of text to data, the neglect of the historical-social context of revelation, and the reification of algorithmic output as interpretive authority. These findings highlight the structural tension between claims of AI objectivity and the interpretive nature of tafsīr. The study concludes that integrating AI should be positioned as a supporting instrument guided by critical reasoning in tafsīr to enrich contemporary Quranic studies without eroding its epistemological complexity.
Fiqh of Artificial Intelligence in a Quranic Perspective: Normative Framework for the Use of AI in the Religious Sphere Habeebullah, Salleh Mohammed; Wahyuni, Syarifah; Ekowati, Nur Afifah; Otim, Mussa
Al-Qarawiyyin: Jurnal Ilmu Ushuluddin Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026): The Future of Quranic Studies in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.64691/d6akkv87

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The increasingly intensive use of artificial intelligence in religious practices—such as the interpretation of religious texts, digital fatwā, and prayer assistance—raises serious normative issues related to the authority of knowledge, legal legitimacy, and the boundaries of the relationship between humans and technology in Islam. So far, studies of AI fiqh have been dominated by pragmatic approaches and partial legal analogies, and have not systematically departed from the normative foundations of the Quran as the primary source of Islamic law. This study aims to formulate a principled-conceptual normative framework for artificial intelligence fiqh, grounded in the Quran, for assessing the use of AI in the religious sphere. This study employs a normative legal method, with a thematic interpretation (mawḍūʻī) approach, to examine Quranic verses on reason, knowledge, trust, moral responsibility, and the relationship between humans and technology. A critical conceptual analysis of classical and contemporary fiqh literature accompanies it. The results show that the normative framework for AI fiqh can be formulated based on three main findings. First, ontologically, AI is positioned as an instrument resulting from human endeavor, not a moral subject or a source of normative authority. Second, epistemologically, AI is limited to analytical and computational support functions in the production of religious knowledge, without replacing ethically and legally responsible human reasoning. Third, normatively, the use of AI must comply with the moral principles of the Quran, including justice, benefit, accountability, and prevention of harm. In conclusion, this study offers a conceptual contribution in the form of a normative framework for AI fiqh that affirms the supremacy of the Quran as the primary reference for responding to the transformation brought about by cutting-edge technology, while strengthening the foundation of contemporary fiqh in facing digital challenges.
The Story of the Companions of the Cave and Modern Temporal Disruption: A Conceptual Analysis of the Quran in the Context of Artificial Intelligence Chaniago, Salsabila Najma; Salsabila, Anita; Sharaniya, Fathima
Al-Qarawiyyin: Jurnal Ilmu Ushuluddin Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026): The Future of Quranic Studies in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.64691/p5b19e54

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The acceleration of computation, simultaneous processing, and predictive logic in artificial intelligence has disrupted the way humans understand time, which was previously perceived as linear, sequential, and progressive. Meanwhile, studies of the story of the Companions of the Cave in the Quran are still predominantly placed within a historical-didactic framework, so that its conceptual potential in reading the problems of modern temporality has not been adequately explored. This study aims to explicitly and purposefully analyze the construction of nonlinear temporality in the story of the Companions of the Cave and to engage in critical dialogue with the algorithmic temporality that underlies AI work. This study uses a qualitative approach based on conceptual-thematic analysis of Quranic verses related to time, with a method of critical-comparative dialogue between classical and contemporary interpretations, and theories of temporality in artificial intelligence studies. The results show that the story of the Companions of the Cave represents a nonlinear temporality model that emphasizes the relativity of human time experience, where objective duration is not identical to subjective perception. The conceptual analysis reveals three distinct temporal regimes: human temporality, existential, limited, and experienced; the quantitative, computational, and predictive temporality of machines; and the transcendent, absolute, and beyond-calculation divine temporality. This comparison emphasizes the ontological limits that AI cannot overcome, despite its massive, simultaneous time-processing capacity. In conclusion, the story of the Companions of the Cave expands the horizon of Quranic thematic interpretations of time. It provides a critical framework for assessing claims of artificial intelligence’s temporal supremacy in the modern context.

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