The NanoWisdoms Archive of Imamat Speeches, Interviews and Writings wishes all belated Diamond Jubilee Mubarak! Although thought of as an architectural endeavour, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture -- established forty years ago by His Highness the Aga Khan -- has deeper intellectual and philosophical roots. As the Aga Khan explained, in 2001, the "goal was to create an intellectual space" ...

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When I inquired as to what role can Islam play in promoting social peace, especially in a region like South Asia, the Aga Khan was unequivocal: "Social ethic is a strong principle in Islam and I think that Muslims would be well advised to respect that as a fundamental ethic of our faith and to live by that, which means that ...

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The NanoWisdoms Archive of Imamat Speeches, Interviews and Writings wishes all Happy New Year. A New Year brings with it the promise of change and 2017 promises to be memorable year, full of change, for both Ismailis and the world, as a whole. This year we Ismailis will, In'Shah'Allah, celebrate His Highness the Aga Khan's Diamond Jubilee -- marking 60 glorious ...

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The NanoWisdoms Archive of Imamat Speeches, Interviews and Writings wishes all Salgirah Mubarak. Salgirah is an annual Ismaili celebration, commemorated on December 13, in recognition of His Highness the Aga Khan's birthday. The famous 19th Century playwright, poet and author, Oscar Wilde, once remarked "with age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone" -- though in the Aga Khan's case, of ...

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These are just a few thoughts as I look to the future of Global Citizenship. The challenges, in sum, will be many and continuing. What will they require of us? A short list might include these strengths: a vital sense of balance, an abundant capacity for compromise, more than a little sense of patience, an appropriate degree of humility, a good ...

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The NanoWisdoms Archive of Imamat Speeches, Interviews and Writings wishes all Navroz Mubarak. Today, the Spring Solstice, is Navroz, or "New Day," symbolising new beginnings. It is, therefore, also a time to reflect over what we wish to begin afresh. In the past four months, first at Harvard in November and then at Sharm el-Sheik in February, His Highness the Aga ...

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For a very long time, as you know, the term most often used in describing the search for human understanding was the word "tolerance." In fact, it was one of the words that was used in 1955 text to describe one of the objectives of this Jodidi Lecture. In recent years our vocabulary in discussing this subject has evolved. One word ...

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How much are you guided by your faith? Is your faith everything? Yes. I wouldn't be guided by anything else. I wouldn't understand that. So every minute of every day, you're guided by your faith? Well, the faith has 1400 years of tradition. It has been exposed to so many different situations that there's practically no human situation unknown to it, ...

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The NanoWisdoms Archive of Imamat Speeches, Interviews and Writings wishes all Imamat Day Mubarak (click on the image to view the card). In keeping with the theme of our card, we would like to share with you some of His Highness the Aga Khan's advices for leaders: . If this is your first visit to the Archive, we invite you to ...

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The Park and its Gardens can serve as a symbol of "connection" in other ways as well. Among them are rich connections across time linking us to the past. The Garden has for many centuries served as a central element in Muslim culture. The Holy Qur'an, itself, portrays the Garden as a central symbol of a spiritual ideal -- a place ...

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Four years ago, today, the NanoWisdoms Archive of Imamat Speeches, Interviews and Writings was given special permission by Aiglemont to publish His Highness the Aga Khan's speeches. One key objective and reason for establishing the Archive was to create a comprehensive and authoritative, professional reference resource of the Aga Khan's wisdom for scholars. It is, therefore, with great satisfaction and pride ...

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The NanoWisdoms Archive of Imamat Speeches, Interviews and Writings wishes all Navroz Mubarak (click on the image to view the card). In keeping with the theme of our card -- Relativism -- we would like to share with you our Editor's article, Beyond Relativism: The Aga Khan on Personal Search, Universal Ethics and Pluralism, published today on the Ismaili Gnosis website. ...

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The NanoWisdoms Archive of Imamat Speeches, Interviews and Writings wishes all happy New Year (click on the image to view the card). Over the past 57 years, His Highness the Aga Khan has, time and time again, emphasised the critical importance of new ideas for solving the pressing problems of our times -- whether communal, local, national, regional or global. Albert ...

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The NanoWisdoms Archive of Imamat Speeches, Interviews and Writings wishes all Salgirah Mubarak (click on the image to view the card). Although birthdays are a time for celebration, they are also a time for reflection. Reflection on what one has accomplished in the previous year, and in life generally. While the accomplishments of Mawlana Hazar Imam's life are beyond tabulation -- ...

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It's an extraordinary phenomenon that there's this enormous knowledge gap and I think it's the duty of everybody, myself included, to try to fill in that knowledge gap. Interviewer: Daniel Lak at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto The religious leader, who brought all of this to Toronto, hopes to close a gap in understanding between those of the vast heritage of ...

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Next month the Ismaili Centre, Toronto, the Aga Khan Museum and their Park are expected to be officially opened. In anticipation of this landmark event, NanoWisdoms is pleased to present The Road to Toronto series in which, each week, we'll focus on a different aspect of this multi-faceted institution. This week's instalment is on the societal aspect and the park. The ...

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The NanoWisdoms Archive of Imamat Speeches, Interviews and Writings wishes all Eid Mubarak (click on the image to view the card). In keeping with the theme of our card, we would like to share with you some of our favourite quotes from the Imamat on moral courage and character: If this is your first visit to the Archive, we invite you ...

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The NanoWisdoms Archive of Imamat Speeches, Interviews and Writings wishes all Imamat Day Mubarak (click on the image to view the card). To see why the we chose AgustaWestland's AW609 as a symbol of creativity and innovation, please watch and see the future of high-speed, long range (1300km) air-ambulance and other specialized, door-to-door air-services. A fleet of four AgustaWestland AW139 helicopters ...

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[Google translation] How do you perceive the rising tensions around Islam? This is a concern for the whole world, not only for the Muslim world. The vast majority of these conflicts is not the result of theological problems, but political. Sometimes there instrumentalization of religion for political purposes. The answer is first constitutional. A quarter of the Member States of the ...

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In anticipation of this week's award ceremony for the Council of Europe's 2013 North-South Prize conferred on His Highness the Aga Khan, the NanoWisdoms Archive, in conjunction with Azeem Maherali, is pleased to publish an update to its acclaimed, mural-sized timeline of the awards and honours the Aga Khan has garnered since becoming Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims 57 years ...

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The NanoWisdoms Archive of Imamat Speeches, Interviews and Writings wishes all Navroz Mubarak (click on the image to view the card). Launched several years ago, in 2011, upon receiving special permission from Aiglemont to publish His Highness the Aga Khan's speeches, the NanoWisdoms Archive is a unique website dedicated solely to the Ismaili Imamat's speeches, interviews and writings. With over 500 ...

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[T]he key to human cooperation and concord has not depended on advances in the technologies of communication, but rather on how human beings go about using -- or abusing -- their technological tools. Among the risks of our new communications world is its potential contribution to what I would call the growing "centrifugal forces" in our time -- the forces of ...

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Without a doubt, I am seriously worried [about the world]. I think we are seeing new problems that originally looked to be local problems but now are becoming regional problems and regional problems that are becoming global problems. One of them is frustration with governments that have stayed in power too long and underperformed. Another, the Shia-Sunni divide is a serious ...

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What are the continuing consequences of the situation in Iraq? Well I think one of them obviously is crisis between the Shia and Sunni communities. I think that crisis is now extending throughout the region, and I mentioned today [in my speech to Parliament], that it's actually active in nine countries. I mean, if you make a parallel with the Christian ...

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Event photo: University of Alberta. Later this week, His Highness the Aga Khan by invitation of the Prime Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, His Highness the Aga Khan, will make an historic address to both the Members of the Senate and the House of Commons, a rare privilege normally reserved for heads of state and government. To commemorate ...

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Event photo: Office of the Prime Minister of Canada On 27 February, 2014, by invitation of the Prime Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, His Highness the Aga Khan, will make an historic address to both the Members of the Senate and the House of Commons, a rare privilege normally reserved for heads of state and government. Although the ...

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The NanoWisdoms Archive of Imamat Speeches, Interviews and Writings wishes all happy New Year. In keeping with the theme of our card, we would like to share with you some important quotes of His Highness the Aga Khan on embracing controversy in the search for new knowledge, truth and creative solutions. POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...

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The NanoWisdoms Archive of Imamat Speeches, Interviews and Writings wishes all Salgirah Mubarak. In keeping with the theme of our card, we would like to share with you some important quotes of His Highness the Aga Khan and Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III, on the continuous, limitless nature of Creation and man's relationship to Creation. POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED ...

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Launched in 2011, upon receiving special permission from Aiglemont to publish His Highness the Aga Khan's speeches, the NanoWisdoms Archive is a unique website dedicated solely to the Ismaili Imamat's speeches, interviews and writings. As part of our efforts to help introduce and increase awareness of the NanoWisdoms Archive among the jamat, we are trying to get in touch with teachers/facilitators ...

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I think what drives our network is to enable people to manage their destinies. Once they manage their destinies, you will see, generally speaking, a take-off situation. It's when they cannot manage their destinies and cannot achieve a level of economic independence that they are indebted in a terrible way or are subject to climate change because they are in agriculture ...

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So what do you tell your friends in the Western world about their new stereotypes of Islam and what do you tell your Muslim brothers and sisters and followers about their stereotypes of the Western world? Well I would start by asking a very simple question: in 2013 what is the definition of an educated person? What is the knowledge that ...

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Do individuals increasingly lack an ethical compass? Which is why most freedoms go past a certain set of limits. Freedom has been taken to a point where unethical behaviour has become acceptable. That is what I am apprehensive about and we see it many parts of the world. That kind of freedom enables the individual to behave in ways that are ...

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The NanoWisdoms Archive of Imamat Speeches, Interviews and Writings wishes Prince Rahim and Kendra Spears a long and happy life together. In celebration of this happy occasion, the NanoWisdoms Archive is pleased to bring you His Highness the Aga Khan's lengthy, but little known, 1983 Khaleej Times interview, made during his first visit to the region at the time of his ...

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The NanoWisdoms Archive of Imamat Speeches, Interviews and Writings wishes all Eid Mubarak. In keeping with the theme of our Eid card, we would like to share with you some important quotes of His Highness the Aga Khan on dogma, myopia & asphyxiating policies vs research, innovation, creativity & pragmatism. Please click on the link below: POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...

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In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in America, the simmering, global discussion about Islam and Muslims gained top-of-mind presence, particularly in the West, as they sought to rationalise the causes behind the attacks. Like Muslim leaders the world over, His Highness the Aga Khan denounced the attacks as unrelated to the faith of Islam, explaining they stemmed from a "pullulation ...

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