This paper offers a framework for an Islamic moral theological contribution to discussions on AI and inequality. In the eighteenth century, industrial development created a huge gap in wealth and power between Western Europe and North Africa on one hand and the rest of the world on the other, a phenomenon referred to by social historians as 'the great divergence'. This divergence has had persisting detrimental effects on the rest of the world and the recent developments in AI are likely to lead to an even greater one not only between different regions of the world, but within them. Such a risk comes with opportunities for philosophical and theological reflection on questions such as that of human dignity and its preservation in an unequal world. This paper argues that on this question moral theologians can offer conceptions of human dignity and condemnations of exploitation and manipulation as means of its violation that secular moral philosophers cannot secure, owing to the commitment in traditions such as Christianity and Islam to the doctrine of the creation of human beings in the image of God. It seeks to establish that Islamic moral theology offers a framework for treating AI and inequality that is conducive to inter-religious dialogue and collaboration on the question that avoids pitfalls of treatments rooted in secular liberal conceptions of human dignity. The paper begins with stressing the need for an Islamic moral theological framework for treating AI and inequality, pointing to the reasons Muslims and non-Muslims alike stand in need for it. It then proceeds to the delineation of four elements that I argue must be present in any Muslim theological treatment of the question: a scriptural account of justice, a realist recognition of the inevitability of inequality, an account of exploitation and manipulation as violations of human dignity, and legal and spiritual means for the protection of the vulnerable in an unequal world.