# Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC) MCP Server

Read-only access to the Islam West Africa Collection via Hugging Face datasets.

**Tools observed.** Pod connected on 2026-09-13 and the server listed 34 tools directly. Verified.

## At a glance

**Source code:** [Open repository](https://github.com/fmadore/iwac-mcp-server)

**GitHub popularity:** 2 stars on [fmadore/iwac-mcp-server](fmadore/iwac-mcp-server), recorded 2026-09-14.

## Status

Pod connected to Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC) on 2026-09-13. It answered and listed its tools, responding in 1777ms.

It identifies itself as `iwac-mcp-server` version 3.5.2, speaking sse. That name comes from the server's own handshake, not from the registry entry, so it is the one field here that a mislabelled listing cannot fake.

## Tools

Pod observed 34 tools when it connected:

- [`search`](/mcp/tool/search)
- [`fetch`](/mcp/tool/fetch)
- `search_articles`
- [`get_article`](/mcp/tool/get-article)
- `search_by_sentiment`
- `get_sentiment_distribution`
- `search_index`
- `get_index_entry`
- `list_subjects`
- [`list_locations`](/mcp/tool/list-locations)
- `list_persons`
- `get_collection_stats`
- `get_newspaper_stats`
- `get_country_comparison`
- `get_temporal_distribution`
- `get_topic_distribution`
- `get_field_distribution`
- `get_cooccurrence`
- `get_place_distribution`
- `get_semantic_map`
- `get_similar_items`
- `get_lexical_metrics`
- `search_publications`
- `list_periodicals`
- `get_publication_fulltext`
- `search_references`
- `get_reference`
- [`search_documents`](/mcp/tool/search-documents)
- [`get_document`](/mcp/tool/get-document)
- `search_audiovisual`
- `list_audiovisual`
- `get_audiovisual`
- `search_images`
- `get_image`

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://islam.zmo.de/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "islam-west-africa-collection-iwac": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://islam.zmo.de/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

Published as `https://github.com/fmadore/iwac-mcp-server/releases/download/v3.6.0/iwac-mcp-server-macos.mcpb` on mcpb. Runs locally.

Published as `https://github.com/fmadore/iwac-mcp-server/releases/download/v3.6.0/iwac-mcp-server-windows.mcpb` on mcpb. Runs locally.

## Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC) yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, [contribute what you saw](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/tools) so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

## For agents

Use Pod's public read-only MCP endpoint, `https://api.askpod.ai/mcp/read`, to search the canonical directory from your agent. [Connect Pod to an agent](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/endpoints).

<details>
<summary>See setup and API details</summary>

### Search MCPs

Call `find_mcp` to find Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC), alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

```json
{
  "query": "Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC)",
  "limit": 5
}
```

Use the returned canonical ID with `inspect_mcp` to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

```bash
curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC)' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

This listing is also available as [Markdown](/mcp/islam-west-africa-collection-iwac.md) and structured [JSON](/mcp/islam-west-africa-collection-iwac.json) for download or programmatic use. Prefer JSON when you need fields rather than prose.

</details>

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