A Sufi and Islamic scholar whose
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Help Us Preserve Laleh's Wisdom for the FutureTo bring Laleh's wisdom to life as an online knowledge base, we are raising much needed funds that will pay for data scientists to synthesize the thousands of data points in Dr. Bakhtiar’s research so they can be shared through AI technology. Any amount you donate helps create a more complete picture of Laleh's wisdom and life story for future generations. All donations are tax-deductible.
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A late scholar's wisdom lives on through artificial intelligenceDr. Laleh Bakhtiar (1938-2020) was a renowned Iranian-American Scholar, lauded for Islamic spirituality and Quranic critical thinking. Over her lifetime of scholarship she had translated, written and edited more than 100 books on Islam.
Now Laleh's three children want to fulfill their mother’s final request to share her writings and reflections with the world. Through her institute, they are creating an AI knowledge base known as the Laleh Knowledge Lake, so the world, particularly Muslim women in the US and abroad, can benefit from Dr. Bakhtiar’s wisdom and scholarship as her family, community, and so many others who knew her during her life. |
What is the Laleh Knowledge Lake (LKL)?
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LKL is the collected body of knowledge of one of the most prolific religious scholars and practitioners, the late Dr. Bakhtiar, transformed into a searchable database and conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) storyteller. Containing articles, books, interviews, and recitations of the Quran as well as other Islamic poetry from her nearly five decades of learning and teachings, the LKL will perpetuate Dr. Bakhtiar's knowledge and insights into the deeply spiritual workings of the Islamic faith. |
Launch Event
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On October 26th, Davar Ardalan (Laleh's daughter and CEO of IVOW AI) joined the prestigious Project Voice X program in Destin, FL to launch LKL and discuss how it can be used to preserve culture and history.
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Help Us Preserve Laleh's Wisdom for the FutureTo bring Laleh's wisdom to life as an online knowledge base, we are raising much needed funds that will pay for data scientists to synthesize the thousands of data points in Dr. Bakhtiar’s research so they can be shared through AI technology. Any amount you donate helps create a more complete picture of Laleh's wisdom and life story for future generations. All donations are tax-deductible.
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Why LKL?
“Laleh knowledge lake (LKL) will guide people to lead a radically new life by attaining ‘spiritual’ intelligence’ which is not ‘artificial.’ An intelligence that is derived from a culturally rich, living tradition of knowledge sharing passed on by sages of wisdom and not data points of information.” “Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar was a maverick in her scholarship and it makes sense for her daughter Davar Ardalan and her institute to be leading this effort to bring her body of work to AI. With additional funding, access to all of Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar’s work in pure text form will be possible. This will result in expanding the current searchable database into a powerful and impactful tool. Additionally, through a process of breaking down her work into smaller text-based components and labelling (tagging) them all based on a set of criteria, we can build a tool that can be used to easily filter and recommend pieces of Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar’s work to people based on what they are looking for.” “Light a small candle instead of cursing the dark.” |
"Our mother left such a valuable body of work through her letters, notes, videos, podcasts, emails, social media posts, books, lectures, interviews and more. That’s why we are creating an AI-ready, public data source, or a ‘Knowledge Lake,’ to preserve her timeless and timely wisdom. It’s about the preservation of culture and history through artificial intelligence." "Last year around this time the world lost an outstanding scholar, a woman of faith, and above all, a most beautiful and noble human being when Laleh Bakhtiar passed away. A pioneering scholar in this field She was indeed courageous and leaves behind a rich legacy. Her daughter (Davar) and some friends are working to make her many works accessible to scholars and lay readers through data and applied artificial intelligence, something that Laleh herself would have welcomed for she was also ahead of her time. May God bless her soul and grant her His infinite Mercy." |