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Building the Future of Islamic Search: How We’re Benchmarking SearchDeen Against Sunnah.com
Published: 29 July 2025By: Mushfiqur Rahman Talha, Greentech Apps Foundation R&D Team At Greentech Apps Foundation, we believe that accessing authentic Islamic knowledge should be as easy as a Google search. That’s why we’re building SearchDeen — a dedicated Islamic search engine designed to help Muslims around the world find reliable answers from trusted sources…
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Making Islamic Scholarship Accessible with AI
Published by: Md. Ashraful Haque, Greentech Apps Foundation – R&DDate: 14 July 2025 What We Built We created an AI system that helps people understand hadith texts better. Islamic scholars like Imam Malik and Imam Bukhari (رحمهم الله) already did amazing work preserving the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). Our job is simply to make…
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Thanks for Being with GTAF: Q1 + Q2 2025 Highlights! ❤️
بِسْــــــــــــــــــمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيْمِ Assalamu ‘alaykum warahmatullah, Dear Brother/Sister, We pray you are in the best of health and Iman. JazakAllahu Khayr for being part of GTAF’s journey to bring people closer to Allah. Alhamdulillah, the first and second quarter of 2025 (January to June) was incredible! With Allah’s blessing, 5.8 million users worldwide spent…
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Smarter Financial Forecasting with AI: How We Use FB Prophet for Charity Planning
At Greentech Apps Foundation (GTAF), we’ve always aimed to use technology to amplify our impact—whether that’s through building Islamic apps or running our charity operations efficiently. One area we’ve recently upgraded is financial forecasting—a critical component for any non-profit. From Guesswork to Intelligence Previously, our budgeting and forecasting efforts relied on basic percentage-based increases and…
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Streamlining Gift Aid Submissions with Python: Saving Time, Boosting Impact
By Greentech Apps Foundation (GTAF)بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Gift Aid is a vital tool for UK-based charities. For every £1 donated by a UK taxpayer, charities can claim an extra 25p from HMRC—effectively increasing the impact of each donation without costing the donor a penny more. For 100% donation policy charities, Gift Aid often covers…
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Using AI to Extract Structured Insights from Seerah Texts
Published: 20 September 2024 Author: Mohammad Galib Shams, Nabil Mosharraf Hossain At Greentech Apps Foundation (GTAF), one of our research initiatives involves applying cutting-edge AI models to classical Islamic texts, including the Seerah (biography of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ). Our recent project focused on automatically extracting structured insights—such as people, places, events, and dates—from raw…
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Automating User Feedback Analysis for Al-Quran App
Published: 05 March 2024 Author: Mohammad Galib Shams, Nabil Mosharraf Hossain At Greentech Apps Foundation, we constantly strive to connect with our users, understand their needs, and improve our products based on their feedback. One of our key projects toward this goal is the Comment Analysis Pipeline—a backend automation tool that helps us monitor, classify,…
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Bridging the Gap Between App Users and Donors: Why Cross-Platform Tracking Matters (and How to Do It Right)
Introduction One of the biggest challenges for Islamic and charity-based mobile apps is tracking the full journey of users—from interacting within the app to making a donation on the website. Without clear visibility into this journey, it becomes difficult to measure ROI, optimise fundraising campaigns, or understand which platforms are truly driving donations. This is…
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How We Hire for R&D at GTAF
At Greentech Apps Foundation (GTAF), our Research & Development (R&D) team plays a critical role in shaping the future of Islamic tech. Over the past year, we’ve explored various approaches to hiring for this team—balancing transparency, speed, and alignment with our mission. Recent Hiring Journey When a key team member from our R&D unit, received…
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Interconnected Learning in Islamic Apps: Insights from User Interviews
Published: 25 March 2025 Author: Ishrat Jahan Easha, Dr Riasat Islam At Greentech Apps Foundation (GTAF), our mission is to create digital tools that help Muslims come closer to Allah ﷻ by engaging meaningfully with the Qur’an, Hadith, and Seerah. As part of our ongoing research efforts, we recently conducted a qualitative user study to…
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