The Salaam Matrix (SMX) is an integration and sorting model, based on Islamic precepts but with universal application and the ability to relate to and translate into other global models, including non-faith systems and disciplines. The designer of the SMX, Ramala Hubb’Allah, has extracted core precepts and design principles out of Islamic teachings, and focused on rendering them in a way that mimics the schemas and growth of human psyche and neurology.
She goes past cultural precepts and dense or secondary and tertiary interpretations, and focuses on first principles, the core, and an almost geometric design sensibility within Islam. Her focus is on extracting and isolating universal templates, schemas and codes, and the underlying organic codes and patterns sitting underneath latter layers.
She believes that this discovery is essential.
BRIDGE NOTES help translate and convert the basic schemas and ideas of the Salaam Matrix to their near-equivalent or adjacent ideas in other faith systems, schools of thought, and bodies of knowledge while staying close to the Salaam Matrix as the opening lens instead of the totality or spread of what “Islamic precepts” would be. Ramala speaks only through and for her own model, and how it connects with a textured landscape of human practices, thoughts and beliefs.
The intent is to create bridges of relation and understanding, and not to appropriate, dominate and co-opt. She also claims no mastery of anything other than her own beliefs and her lived experience and field observations. The Bridge Notes are her attempt to reconcile with, appreciate and understand the world around her.
These notes are presented in good faith and as a goodwill gesture. AI has been used to develop these notes, with the trust that due to being the repository of human knowledge, AI can have a degree of ability to navigate in multiple dimensions, and also have relative if not absolute neutrality.
The Bridge Notes
Each note opens in a new page.
Bridge Note 1: Cultural & Systems Interoperability
More to come.