Towards an Operational Hermeneutics of AI Artifacts

by Hayes Blanchard | 27 Nov, 2025 | Latest News, Monographs, News & Events, Publications, Science

Dr. Aref Ali Nayed’s latest academic paper bridges classical philosophy and cutting-edge AI research. Drawing on his pioneering work in Operational Hermeneutics (developed at University of Guelph in the 1990s), the paper proposes a new framework for...

Credonics: A Manifesto for the Philosophy of Civility and World-Making

by Hayes Blanchard | 06 Nov, 2025 | Monographs, Publications

  Dr. Nayed introduces Credonics—a groundbreaking philosophical discipline that moves beyond the failed framework of memetics to study how civilizations actually transmit meaning and culture.   What is Credonics? The systematic study of credos—clusters of...

An Exemplar of the Madani Approach to Peace-Making

by Kalam Research & Media | 28 Jun, 2023 | Diplomacy, Events & Reports, Human Flourishing, Kalam, Monographs, News & Events, Publications, Religion, Research

Dr Aref Ali Nayed, Chairman of Kalam Research and Media (KRM), has published a monograph on the Consultative Meeting of ulema from the Sahel and Sudan organised by the African Conference for Peace which took place in Nouakchott, Mauritania, under the auspices of the...

Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History

by Kalam Research & Media | 24 Mar, 2023 | Books, Human Flourishing, Publications, Research

Buy on Amazon: Book Kalam Research and Media in cooperation with the Libya Institute for Advanced Studies (KRM) announces the publication of the Arabic edition of Professor Ali Abdullatif Ahmida’s Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History. This seminal work...

The Mediterranean: Reason, Faith, and Civility

by Kalam Research & Media | 29 Dec, 2022 | Interfaith, Kalam, Latest News, Monographs, Philosophy, Publications, Research

This new monograph, “The Mediterranean: Reason, Faith, and Civility” contains the speeches delivered by Dr Aref Ali Nayed, Chairman of Kalam Research and Media, and Dr Wael Farouq, Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Culture at the Faculty of Linguistic...

Ecologies of Wisdom: Christian & Muslim Horizons

by Kalam Research & Media | 05 Dec, 2022 | Islamic Analytic Theology, Latest News, Monographs, Research, Science

Kalam Research and Media (KRM) marked the 20th anniversary of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme (CIP) of the University of Cambridge, by publishing the Muscat Manifesto by Professor David Ford and Ecologies of Peace by Dr Aref Ali Nayed into one volume titled...