Financing IT Tools for Protecting Islamic Literature

Abstract

This research article makes an attempt to create awareness and bring about a paradigm shift in the way the Islamic Literature namely the holy Quran and Ahadith - the sayings/quotes or behavior of prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the various other supporting literature related to Shariah (Islamic Law) of the religion of Islam are stored and retrieved. The various IT tools like Image analyzing and Processing, Use of Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Management, Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Management, Indexing and Storage and Standardization and Quality Assurance can be used for the purpose of keeping the Islamic Literature intact as desired. Off course a lot of finance is required to execute the above exercise, this is what the article will try to make a readymade remedy. The above stated techniques of IT offer a whole bunch of new avenues to have a perfect zero level error system for spreading Islamic Knowledge to the whole world without letting it being corrupted by the evil forces. The user-centric based system so developed will offer the possibility to study the Islamic Literatures through web-based interfaces, implementing novel visualization techniques for browsing, querying, consulting and for acquiring knowledge through IT tools. Estimates suggest that overall Islamic finance industry, which includes Islamic banking, non-banking, mutual funds, leasing, real estates, stock market to the charitable financial institutions, has grown many folds during the last two decades. Taking into account 15 percent annual growth of the industry during the last two decades, even a conservative estimate will put the Islamic finance size beyond US$ 1000 billion. Financing of IT tools for protection of Islamic Literature can be done using Islamic Finance tools and techniques.