swaileh/qias-mawarith-rag

The qias-mawarith-rag project is a highly specialized application targeting Islamic inheritance law, a niche but complex domain of jurisprudence. With 0 stars and forks and being only 33 days old, it currently represents a personal research project or a preliminary submission for a specific conference (indicated by 'QIAS 2026'). From a competitive standpoint, the defensibility is minimal; it utilizes standard RAG patterns which are now commodity technology. While frontier labs (OpenAI, Anthropic) are unlikely to build a dedicated 'Mawarith' tool, their base models already exhibit strong reasoning capabilities for structured rule-sets like inheritance law when provided with the correct context. The 'moat' here would theoretically be a proprietary, expert-curated dataset of legal precedents or edge cases, but as an open-source project without community traction, it is easily replicable. The primary value lies in the domain-specific application rather than technical innovation. Existing rule-based inheritance calculators (which have existed for decades) are actually strong competitors because they provide deterministic results, whereas a RAG-based LLM approach risks hallucinations in a high-stakes legal/religious context.