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Ansari: A Retrieval-Grounded Islamic AI Assistant -- Architecture, Deployment, and Lessons from 140,000 Conversations

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Ansari is a retrieval‑grounded Islamic AI assistant that has handled over 140,000 conversations in more than 25 languages since June 2023. It uses an agentic retrieval loop where a language model searches authenticated Islamic corpora—including the Qur’an, hadith collections, fiqh encyclopedias, and tafsir sources—and answers only based on retrieved content, providing citations for verification. The paper details Ansari’s architecture, multi‑platform deployment, evaluation results (including top performance on the IslamicMMLU leaderboard and strong resistance to false premises), and lessons for faith‑sensitive LLM deployments.

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