2025 · 8 lectures · 103 slides
Education in the AI Era: Cultivating Multiplex Intelligence and Human Wholeness
Balancing the intellectual, ethical and spiritual dimensions of the person to meet the challenges of the AI era.
Spiritual excellence
Ihsan.
Ihsan is excellence, beauty and sincerity in action, done in God-consciousness and for the benefit of creation. It is the thread that runs through my courses, my writing on technology and education, and the work of the IHSAN Research Lab.
Multiplexity is a way of thinking in levels of reality and both-and; ihsan is the sincerity and excellence with which that thinking is lived. Multiplexity →
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: “Verily, Allah has prescribed excellence (ihsan) in all things…” (Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1955, narrated by Shaddād ibn Aws, may Allah be pleased with him)
إِحْسَان
The IHSAN courses
2020 · 13 videos · 145 slides
Spiritual Excellence (Ihsan) for Muslim Professionals
Ihsan as a way of professional life: sincerity, vision, character, mastery, productivity and service.
Quran study
A short course on understanding the Quran, recorded between October and December 2021 and open to everyone.
Islamic ethics and AI: a conference
The International Conference on Islamic Ethics and AI (Lahore, December 2021), which we organized, brought together researchers and practitioners on Islamic perspectives on AI ethics. The session videos are on YouTube.
Ethics, (Islamic) values and technology
The university course SS125, with its complete slides and the paper on teaching it.
Papers on ihsan and Islamic ethics
Starting with the hadith-based analysis of ihsan, then the wider writing on Islamic ethics, development and technology.
J. Qadir, A. Raquib, H. Saeed
Handbook of Ethics of Islamic Economics and Finance pp. 217–237
E. Elmahjub, J. Qadir, A. Mushtaq, R. Naeem, I. Ghaznavi, W. Iqbal
Artificial Intelligence and Law
J. Qadir, R. Sentürk
Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence and Education
The publisher (Edward Elgar) does not permit this chapter to be shared openly. To request a copy, write to me, using the Contact page
Educating for the AI Era: Harnessing the Wild GenAI Horse through Multiplex AI Humanities and Critical AI Literacy
forthcoming
J. Qadir, R. Sentürk
Taylor & Francis, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Islamic Finance
Ghazalian Project for the AI Era: Critical Islamic Framework for Guiding AI Development
forthcoming
J. Qadir, M. R. Arshad
Ghazali on Education
The Philosophy of Islamic Legislation: Science of the Secrets of Religion in the Light of the Waliullahi School of Thought
J. Qadir, M. A. K. Azad
SSRN working paper
Can LLMs Write Faithfully? An Agent-Based Evaluation of LLM-generated Islamic Content
A. Mushtaq, R. Naeem, E. Elmahjub, I. Ghaznavi, S. M. Al-Maliki, M. Abdallah, A. Al-Fuqaha, J. Qadir
Muslims in ML (MusIML) Workshop at NeurIPS 2025, San Diego
E. Elmahjub, J. Qadir
Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society 21(4): 452–467
M. H. Bashir, A. M. Azmi, H. Nawaz, W. Zaghouani, M. Diab, A. Al-Fuqaha, J. Qadir
Artificial Intelligence Review 56(7): 6801–6854
A. Raquib, B. Channa, T. Zubair, J. Qadir
Discover AI Journal 2
A. Zaman, J. Qadir
Islamic Perspective for Sustainable Financial System, Istanbul University Press pp. 53–70
A. Raquib, J. Qadir, B. S. Channa
Handbook of Ethics of Islamic Economics and Finance, ed. Zamir Iqbal, Kazem Sadr, and Abbas Mirakhor (Berlin: De Gruyter pp. 65–90
T. Zubair, A. Raquib, J. Qadir, Islam
Civilisational Renewal (ICR), published by IAIS Malaysia 10(2), pp. 189–212
J. Qadir, A. Zaman
International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 10
The Ends of Development in Islam: Seven Overlapping Concepts
J. Qadir, A. Zaman
Journal of Islamic Banking and Finance 35
The Islamic Worldview and Development Ideals
J. Qadir
Journal of Islamic Banking and Finance 35, pp. 33–44
J. Qadir, M. Suleman
International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering pp. 486–491
A. Qayyum, S. Latif, J. Qadir
International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering pp. 492–497
Putting Social Justice First: The Case of Islamic Economics
A. Zaman, J. Qadir
Journal of Islamic Banking & Finance. Oct–Dec 34(4), pp. 87–99
The Ihsan Initiative, a non-profit foundation in formation, will carry this work further. Its website will be announced here.