Aref Ali Nayed

Aref Ali Nayed is Director of the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center in Amman, Jordan. He studied Engineering (B.Sc.(Eng.)), Philosophy of Science (M.A.), and Hermeneutics (Ph.D.) at the University of Iowa and the University of Guelph. He also studied, as a special student, at the University of Toronto and the Pontifical Gregorian University. He is a Former Professor at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (Rome), and the International Institute for Islamic Thought and Civilization (Malaysia). He is currently an Advisor to the Cambridge Interfaith Program at the Faculty of Divinity in Cambridge, and runs a family business as the Managing Director of Agathon Systems Ltd. (IBM, Nortel and NCR Partner for Libya). He is one of the key Islamic scholars responsible for A Common Word, a document of historical importance in the dialogue between Muslims and Christians.

External links

* [http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/misc/commentary_on_benedict.php A Muslim’s Commentary on Benedict XVI’s “Faith, Reason and the University: Memories and Reflections”]
* [http://www.islamicamagazine.com/Common-Word/CNS-interview.html Aref Ali Nayed Interview with Catholic News Service]

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