A sovereign, source-grounded Arabic AI lab
We build Barq — Arabic intelligence that answers from its sources, cites verifiable evidence, and stops when evidence is missing.
Meet Salsabeel and Barq
From Arabic heritage to evidence-grounded intelligence. Discover the lab behind Barq, from original sources and manuscripts to the future.
Watch the film · 2 minutesEnglish narration · Plays only when you chooseWhat is Salsabeel?
Salsabeel is the sovereign Arabic AI lab that builds Barq and develops its family of models, tools and verified knowledge layers.
«عَيْنًا فِيهَا تُسَمَّىٰ سَلْسَبِيلًا» — الإنسان ١٨
Barq — sovereign Arabic intelligence
Barq retrieves answers from original Arabic sources and shows the evidence: a verse in context, a Hadith with its chain, or poetry with attribution. Every card opens a live question.
🔬 Grounded research
Roots, dictionaries, Quran, tafsir and Hadith in one documented path.
🌌 Arabic morphology
Derivational space with real attestations behind every count.
⚖️ Semantic reasoning
Weighs unvowelled Arabic and identifies ambiguity.
🔡 Arabic-native layers
Reads roots, patterns and linguistic structure.
📖 Quran and tafsir
Exact verses and major commentaries side by side.
📜 Hadith evidence
40,943 records across nine collections, chain and text separated.
📝 Quranic grammar
Structured word-level analysis for all 6,236 verses.
📐 Deterministic dimensions
Forty-two dimensions compared without generative guessing.
🎮 Learning games
Arabic learning through verses, meanings and progressive challenges.
🧬 Heritage is our intelligence corpus
We build from the Quran, Hadith, classical Arabic, poetry and manuscript catalogues. Heritage is not only an archive; it is the material of the Arabic intelligence we are building. Whoever owns the corpus owns the intelligence.
Arabic manuscript collections
A living index from heritage libraries around the world, freely available to researchers and connected to Barq's evidence architecture.
🔬 Public methodology and measurement
Our standard is zero fabrication. We measure regularly, publish reports and invite researchers to review evaluations and enrich the corpus.
Abdullah Al-Khatib
Enterprise platform and R&D architect, inventor and CEO with more than 25 years building bilingual enterprise systems.
🏆 Intellectual property
Granted U.S. patent: US 8,782,095 B2. Three pending Saudi patent applications cover enterprise platforms, citation control, and manuscript evidence. View the patent report and drawings →
💼 Leadership
CEO and Director of R&D at Visualsoft.