Write together
Type a quotation and Space finds its page. The agent drafts the section, cited.
NewSpace·Core
Where you, your supervisor and the agent research together
Pages, tables, surveys, reviews and dashboards beside your Shamela library. You lead the research; the agent reads the books, builds and writes with you, and every quote stays tied to its page.
One workspace for every kind of research work
Find the flaw
The agent gathers a hadith’s routes in al-Daraqutni and shows its flaw.
Collate manuscripts
Compare copies word by word, and the variants become your apparatus.
Build a dashboard
Ask for one, and the agent builds the table, views and charts.
Divide an estate
Faraid for each school, with every step tied to its book and page.
Surveys and reviews
Read a live survey summary and screen for PRISMA with the agent.
The agent that accompanies your research
Open it from any page. It reads your chapters and data, builds what you ask for, and answers your supervisor in the page itself.
Edit together with your supervisor
Share a page with a link, choose when it ends, and add an access code if you like. Your supervisor opens it in their own Space, and you write, comment and resolve on the same page at the same time.
HanaStudent
Dr. YusufSupervisor, in their own Space
Side by side, live
Each cursor carries its owner’s name, and every letter appears the moment it is typed, on both screens at once.
Comments on a line
Select a phrase to comment on it. Your supervisor replies in the same thread, and you resolve it once it’s fixed.
Encrypted end to end
The relay passes on only ciphertext. The key stays in the link, and an access code adds a second lock.
Collate manuscripts word by word
Space reads each copy against your text and gives every difference a numbered note.
Surveys, reviews and coding in one place
Run a survey, screen a review and code interviews with the agent, next to the books you cite.
Thesis/Chapter 3
Chapter 3: Methodology
3.1 Survey
The survey went to muftis and researchers in Malaysia and the Gulf. It opens with a consent step, and answers are published only in aggregate.
Survey formAccepting responses
Survey: maslaha mursala in contemporary financial fatwas
This survey asks muftis and researchers how far they rely on maslaha mursala in fatwas on transactions. It takes about four minutes.
Survey summary
responsesLast response:
1. Study levelAnswered
Undergraduate
Master’s
PhD
6. Maslaha is misused in some contemporary fatwas.Answered
- Mean
- SD
- Median
1
2
3
4
5
Strongly disagreeStrongly agree
Reading by the agent3.2 Systematic review
Records from three databases are screened by title and abstract against the protocol, then in full text.
PRISMA diagramReview records ⌄
IdentificationScreeningIncluded
Records identified from:
Databases (n = )
- Dar Almandumah (n = )
- Google Scholar (n = )
- Scopus (n = )
Records removed before screening:
Duplicates (n = )
Records screened (n = )
Records excluded (n = )
Reports sought for retrieval (n = )
Reports not retrieved (n = )
Reports assessed for eligibility (n = )
Reports excluded (n = )
Studies included in review (n = )
Review records
| Title | Source | Stage | Exclusion reason |
|---|
3.3 Interviews
Six members of Shariah boards were interviewed. Each transcript is coded, and a second coder checks the coding.
Interview · P3Member of a Shariah boardSelect text to code it
When a new product comes to the board, we first ask whether a text addresses it. If none does, we look at the purposes of the law and what the product protects or harms.
We never use maslaha to set aside a clear prohibition. That is the line. Honestly, some boards are under pressure from the banks that pay them, and that is where maslaha gets stretched.
We also go back to the classical cases. Al-Ghazali accepts maslaha only when it is necessary, certain and general, and I think boards should still hold to those three conditions.
Codebook
Coding matrixCodes × participants
| Code | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | P5 | P6 | Total |
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Made for research in the Islamic sciences
Live source detection
Type a quotation and Space finds it in your library, with its book and page.
Live citations
Footnotes and the bibliography follow your citation style and update as you write.
Fields for the Islamic sciences
Book, quotation, ayah, narrator, hadith grade and madhhab fields in every table.
Word and Notion
Export to Word with real footnotes, or bring your Notion pages in.
On your computer
Pages, tables and files are stored locally, inside Shamela Agent.
The agent on every page
Ask from any page. Every change it makes keeps a version you can restore.
Everything you can do in Space
Explore what you can do, all on your computer.
Dashboards from your data
Charts and counts that update as responses and records come in.
Statistics on your survey
ANOVA, t-tests and correlation, written up APA-style.
Every route on a board
Routes grouped by form, marfuʿ, mursal or maqtuʿ, each card tied to its page.
Zakat, worked out
Gold, trade, crops or fitrah, with the nisab of your madhhab and each step shown.
See every chain at once
The chains on a page drawn as one diagram, with the common link and the doubtful links marked.
Plan in the Hijri calendar
Every date shows its Hijri day beside the Gregorian, in calendars and tables.
Inheritance at a glance
Each heir’s share as a chart, in four madhhabs, with the steps and their sources.
Track your reading
How much of your library you have read, and which schools it draws on.
Check a chain, link by link
Each narrator is identified from Shamela’s narrator data; every link is marked attested, possible or unlikely.
Sources by school
Group your sources by madhhab, century or reading status with a click.
Translate side by side
Sentence by sentence, with drafts marked until you review them.
Shariʿi measures
Mithqal, dirham, saʿ, qullatain and masafat al-qasr in grams, kilos and kilometres.
There’s more waiting for you to explore in Space
FAQ
Can I use Space without the agent?
Yes. Pages, tables, forms and dashboards work on their own. The agent helps when you ask it, on the page you have open.
Where do the citations come from?
From the books in your installed Shamela library. Space ties each quotation to its book and page, so you can open the source in Shamela at any time.
Where is my work stored?
On your computer, inside Shamela Agent. The agent uses your Claude or ChatGPT connection, just like the main chat.
Can the agent change my pages?
Only when you ask. Every change it makes is saved as a version, so you can restore the page as it was.
What happens when I delete a page?
It goes to Trash with the pages inside it, and you can restore it from there. It’s gone for good only when you empty the Trash.