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Updated on 08 June 2026 at 2:06 AM
📖 8 min readHow Moustaqim selects, synthesizes and supervises its content, and which works make up its documentary corpus.
Moustaqim is placed under the editorial supervision of Samir Seduk, who holds a Master's degree in Sharia (Islamic sciences) and also has university training in the Arabic language.
His role covers the selection of sources, the synthesis of content, its structuring and adaptation, and the overall editorial consistency of the site.
Moustaqim does not present its published content as the personal religious opinions of its editorial supervisor. The project primarily aims to organize, synthesize and make more easily accessible knowledge drawn from a vast Islamic corpus.
Moustaqim's content is not original research. It is produced from a vast Islamic documentary corpus, following a multi-step methodology.
Research in Islamic works and corpora relevant to each topic, drawing on large digitized Islamic libraries.
Useful passages and information are selected according to the topic.
When several sources are available, the relevant information can be brought together and organized to obtain a consistent presentation.
Information is synthesized so that readers do not have to consult a very large number of works to understand the essentials of a subject.
Material taken from the works is not simply reproduced in the order of the sources. It can be grouped, hierarchized, reformulated, contextualized, structured into sections, turned into FAQs and organized for teaching purposes.
Content is adapted to Moustaqim's format and to the reader's language.
The overall consistency of the content and its presentation is placed under the editorial supervision of Samir Seduk.
Moustaqim is not intended to create a new religious doctrine or to issue new legal opinions. The site is above all a work of documentation, selection, synthesis, structuring, transmission and accessibility.
A large part of the documentary material used comes from existing Islamic works, classical and contemporary, as well as other sources presented in the "Documentary corpus" section below.
When content reflects the opinion of a particular author, jurist, school or scholar, it is not presented as the personal opinion of Moustaqim or of its editorial supervisor.
When several recognized positions exist and this divergence helps understand the subject, Moustaqim seeks not to turn a documented divergence into an artificial consensus.
Moustaqim's content draws on a vast corpus of classical and contemporary Islamic works. The references below are the works found in the documentary sources used by the project.
112 referenced works · 88 identified authors · 9 disciplines
The qamous merge also includes 3 other Arabic dictionaries whose titles are not documented in the project data.
3 other terminology dictionaries included in the glossary are not named in the source data. Definitions written directly by Moustaqim are not a referenced work.
Beyond these works, some sections of the site also rely on other documentary sources: official Quran translations, word-by-word glosses, hadith explanations, sermon archives, openly licensed mosque data and name etymology references.