Adab Reader

Reads the article you're on and adds AI-generated Islamic scholarly commentary in a corner panel.

Adab Reader is a free educational tool that adds Islamic scholarly commentary to news articles that you read on the web. WHAT IT DOES 1. When you open a web page, Adab Reader checks whether the page is an article. It looks for article markup (an og:type of "article", or Article/NewsArticle/BlogPosting schema data) and at least 400 words of text. Pages that don't meet both conditions are ignored, and pages containing a password field are always skipped. 2. If the page is an article, Adab Reader extracts the article's text and sends it to our server at adabreader.com, which passes it to Anthropic's Claude API to generate a commentary. 3. About 30 seconds later, a small panel appears in the bottom corner of the page showing a one-sentence summary of the commentary. The sentence in the article that the commentary responds to is highlighted in the page. 4. Clicking the panel expands it in place to show the full commentary: the specific point in the article being examined, what Islamic theology, law, or spiritual psychology says about that point, and a concluding remark. It may also list up to three suggested further readings with links. 5. Buttons in the expanded panel let you share the commentary as a link or open it on adabreader.com. CONTROLS Click the Adab Reader toolbar icon to open the popup, where you can turn the extension off entirely, pause it on the current site, or view the commentary for the page you're on. DATA Article text is sent to adabreader.com only, which passes it to Anthropic's Claude API to generate the commentary. It is not used to train any model. Generated commentaries are cached on your device so revisiting a page doesn't regenerate them. Your browsing history is not tracked or stored. A commentary is stored on our server only if you explicitly click Share. There are no accounts and no login. To apply a usage limit, each installation generates a random identifier on first run and sends it with each request so the server can count readings used. Each installation is limited to 7 generated commentaries; requesting more is done by email. The identifier is not derived from anything about you, has no article text or URLs attached to it, and is deleted a year after your last reading. ABOUT The commentary draws on kalam (theology), fiqh (law and ethics), and tasawwuf (spiritual psychology), citing specific Qur'anic verses, hadith, and classical scholarly works where they genuinely apply. It is generated by an AI language model, not written by a scholar. It is not a fatwa and is not a substitute for a qualified teacher -- it is a starting point for closer reading. Privacy policy: https://adabreader.com/privacy.html