I want to congratulate and thank the Firashta family and the Soneri Bank for their magnificent contributions this morning. Not only have they been very generous donors to the School of Nursing but they are repeat donors and the fact that they are repeat donors for an institution such as the Aga Khan University is a magnificent example of on-going support ...
While preparing these brief comments, I felt I should do some homework on Emperor Hadrian, after whom this award is named.... Moore describes Hadrian's Villa and its predominant themes in terms surprisingly evocative of many of the distinguishing principles of Islamic architecture.... It is to me utterly striking how many of the unique architectural qualities so eloquently illustrated by Charles Moore ...
[T]he spirit of Creative Encounter [between cultures] will never become a dominant force in our world without the strong and effective leadership of the information media. How can the press best contribute to a spirit of Creative Encounter -- here in Africa and around the world? One simple requirement towers above all others: the ability to respect that which is truly ...
The needs of the world's populations for shelter, health, and sustenance are immense. No government, no international organisation and no corporation has the power to meet all those needs on its own. The lessons of the development effort of the last forty years also show that even when working together, governments, international organisations and corporations have not been able to create ...
[Google translation] "The logic of the Network is that of independence, which alone can provide structural strength. Depending on the generosity is not healthy in the long term," insists Karim Aga Khan, a theorist of self-reliance. ... [Google translation] "[I]t is the market, not government, who is the actor of development." ... [Google translation] "After various socio-economic studies, I became convinced ...
Speaking at the His Highness the Aga Khan said: It is with very great pleasure that I welcome you today to the opening of the Zanzibar Serena Inn. Let me express my sincere gratitude to His Excellency The President of the United Republic of Tanzania Mr. Benjamin Mkapa for having honoured us by accepting to perform today's ceremony. Only nine months ...
Speaking at the His Highness the Aga Khan said: It is with very great pleasure that I welcome you today to the opening of the Zanzibar Serena Inn. Let me express my sincere gratitude to His Excellency The President of the United Republic of Tanzania Mr. Benjamin Mkapa for having honoured us by accepting to perform today's ceremony. Only nine months ...
From the seventh century to the thirteenth century, the Muslim civilisations dominated world culture, accepting, adopting, using and preserving all preceding study of mathematics, philosophy, medicine and astronomy, among other areas of learning. The Islamic field of thought and knowledge included and added to much of the information on which all civilisations are founded. And yet this fact is seldom acknowledged ...
Please click on the icon for a side by side comparison in PDF format.Below, and in the archive , is the published version of this speech. Sections missing in the versions published on the Institute of Ismaili Studies' website are in highlight; additions are in plain highlight. SOURCES:Text (published version): ismaili.netText (Institute of Ismaili Studies version): President Gregorian, Faculty Members, Postgraduates ...
Pranay Gupte: How has your world changed in the 42 years that you have been the Aga Khan? His Highness the Aga Khan: When my grandfather died 42 years ago, I had no expectation of being in a position to fulfil his responsibilities either in the Ismaili community or in development work. The world's development environment was totally disabling. The notion ...
[Translation] Who in your mind are the strongmen of the Muslim world of tomorrow? First of all, those who represent serious politics and economic courage among whom I name the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the King Hussein of Jordan, the King Hassan of Morocco, or even the President Suharto of Indonesia, the Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamed of Malaysia or President ...
[The winners] do not therefore represent solutions developed within the Muslim world and exclusively specific to it, but constitute very high-quality solutions to universal problems from which even the most economically advanced societies may take example and profitable insight.... It illustrates that by using its inherited cultural talents from its built environment, and those of other cultures appropriately harnessed and by ...
[T]here are, throughout the Ummah, strong and legitimate aspirations to be, once again, a respected and central player on the stage of world civilisations. In bringing these aspirations to fruition, I am struck by the close relationship which exists in Islam between intellect and the faith. During the glorious periods of Muslim history, Muslim thinkers, scientists and philosophers were beacons of ...
Six principles form the foundation of the Imamat's work in development: breadth of responsibility, an apolitical stance, pluralism, a long view, work across disciplinary boundaries, and work across political boundaries. The breadth of responsibility is based on the belief in Islam that people must attend to both their spiritual development and their physical needs. The apolitical stance is in recognition that ...
As I look to the future of the Ismaili community worldwide, living in many parts of Central Asia, and in more than 25 different countries, and as I look to the future of Tajikistan, with its variegated population, and as I look at the Ummah, I conclude that every and all those peoples, if they wish to achieve a better life ...
January 24-29, 1995: Functions and events His Highness the Aga Khan attended during the visit are unknown. SOURCESDaily Nation, 24 January 1995ismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...
[Translation] Your Highness, 49th Imam, descendant of Prophet Muhammad, you are the spiritual leader of the Ismailis, a Shia movement of 15 million Muslims. Could we say that you are their pope? My role as Imam has nothing in common with that of John Paul II, because the pope is elected by a college of cardinals, while the office of the ...
An institution dedicated to proceeding beyond known limits must be committed to independent thinking. In a university scholars engage both orthodox and unorthodox ideas, seeking truth and understanding wherever they may be found.... For a Muslim university it is appropriate to see learning and knowledge as a continuing acknowledgement of Allah's magnificence. As one looks back over the history of learning ...
The Institute for Educational Development targets a very important, low status profession: teaching. AKU has long addressed, in nursing, another such profession. The strategy that IED has developed for improving teaching bears many similarities to that which the School of Nursing has used. The very creation of IED highlights the importance of teaching, and the programmes of IED are crafted to ...
It is difficult for me, in a few words this evening, to explain to you what is their contribution, but I would like you to know that it is massive.... The generosity which you have shown is absolutely remarkable, and I want you to be aware that I look at this generosity not only with admiration, but frankly with amazement. Because ...
But adaptation is neither a simple process, nor one that can be completed in one or two generations. Still, today, there are Ismaili children born in this country, who like many other immigrant children, grow up sometimes unable to speak their ethnic language and who learn and adopt as their own ways which their parents always considered alien or worse. Many ...
The religious diversity of Islam is important, and misunderstood by most non-Muslims.... But, for many in the West, the first awareness that there were two major branches of Islam -- Shia and Sunni -- came only with the Iranian revolution. That represents a superficiality of understanding that would be as though we Muslims only just learned that there were two branches ...
[To the architects:] Do not only set the example, share it in a generous and deliberate way, so that it reaches all those who build in every part of the world. Your skills have a meaning and an impact which can become vital. The results of your efforts, for good and ill, are felt far beyond the responses of your clients ...
Speaking to teachers at the school, His Highness the Aga Khan expressed his enthusiasm at the exciting possibilities that lay ahead for the school. He encouraged the teachers to aim beyond the achievement of superior results for their students and to look at the wider dimension of education. SOURCESismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...
Noting that the transfer of technology was a "Two-way street," the Aga Khan cited some examples. Recalling the revolutionary medical breakthrough of oral rehydration therapy in the treatment of diarrhoeal diseases, first developed in Bangladesh, the Aga Khan noted that the Aga Khan Foundation was transferring this technology from Bangladesh, through a variant of the technique, to Pakistan and Kenya. In ...
May 4 1993 (Dacca): Aga Khan Development Network and Government of Bangladesh "Accord of Co-operation for Development" Signing Ceremony.May 4 1993 (Dacca): Aga Khan Development Network and Government of Bangladesh "Protocol of Co-operation for Development" Signing Ceremony.May 5 1993 (Dacca): Dinner in Honour of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.May 6 1993 (Dacca):Prior to his departure, His Highness the Aga Khan stated ...
February 13 1993 (Islamabad): Dinner hosted by the President of Pakistan.February 14 1993 (Islamabad): Luncheon hosted by the Prime Minister of Pakistan.February 14 1993 (Karachi): Dinner Governor of Sindh Province. SOURCESIsmaili Canada, 13 February 1993 ??ismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...
The banquet was attended by Shri Ramrao Adik, Maharashtra's Minister for Finance and Planning deputizing for the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, dignitaries from the State Government and prominent citizens of Bombay, as well as various jamati leaders and executives of the Aga Khan Development Network institutions in India. At the banquet, His Highness the Aga Khan expressed his sincere gratitude to ...
The end of the Cold War, the dismantling of the Soviet Union, the emergence of newly-independent states, worldwide economic uncertainty, exploding ethnic forces -- all must cause us to reflect on the horizons of our future. One result of these changes is that the imposition of certain long-held political and economic dogma on the human mind is disappearing, leaving greater space ...
November 9th, 1992 (Mumbai): Dinner hosted by the Chief Minister of Maharashtra.November 14, 1992 (New Delhi): Luncheon hosted by the President of India.November 14, 1992 (New Delhi): Presentation and Reception for the 1991 Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding to the Indian freedom-fighter and social worker, Shrimati Aruna Asaf Ali.November 17, 1992 (Hyderabad): Dinner hosted by the Chief Minister of Andhra ...
Muslim societies everywhere are having to confront complex patterns and pressures of change. The nine projects we will see tonight, and countless others known to the Award, demonstrate that these pressures can be a source of creativity and opportunity. We see our task in the Award to build a space for reflection and debate on the meaning for architecture of these ...
Two generations of inspired building by Timur and his grandson, Ulugh Beg, have shown us how determined patronage and the skills of different schools and practice can be brought together to create great architecture. Thanking President Karimov, the Government of Uzbekistan and the officials of Samarkand, the Uzbek Union of Architects and the people of Samarkand for making the 1992 award ...
Friday last, I signed an important accord in Ottawa for co-operation with the Canadian Government on behalf of the Aga Khan Development network. It is a further -- very significant -- step in the close and increasingly productive collaboration between the network and Canadian institutions and more particularly the Aga Khan Foundation and CIDA. Indeed this accord follows on similar accords ...
I have thought about [the Salman Rushdie issue] a lot; it saddens me. It's a very sensitive issue, the Rushdie issue, (he said, citing it as proof of the) stunning lack of knowledge (in the west about Islam and its 1 billion followers).... The law of blasphemy in England could have been looked at before the Rushdie book, and there may ...
August 14, 1992 (Ottawa, Canada): Aga Khan Development Network and Government of Canada "Accord of Co-operation" Signing Ceremony.August ??, 1992: Other functions and events His Highness the Aga Khan attended where speeches may have been made, during the week long visit are unknown. SOURCESismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...
His Highness the Aga Khan hosted a dinner at his residence at Aiglemont to commemorate the Aga Khan Foundation's Silver Jubilee (1967-1992). SOURCESismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...
If local needs are best solved locally, what role can the West play in fostering development in the Third World? ... [H]ow can outsiders foster good governance? Donors have been gratifyingly quick to come forward with aid to support specific projects of fledgling voluntary institutions in developing countries. These funds, and accompanying expertise, have enabled those institutions to do more sooner ...
The Cantonal authorities of Geneva hosted a lunch in honour of His Highness the Aga Khan to mark the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Aga Khan Foundation. Presenting the Aga Khan with a book of engravings depicting Geneva's rich past, the President of the State Council, Jean-Phillipe Maitre, recalled the Aga Khan family's long and friendly relationship with the ...
The university is a place where ideas are created and tested, where ideas compete on their merits. Just as the university should be a market place of ideas, we should seek to create a market place of institutions of higher education where different institutions are designed to meet different needs and where soundly based, well honed institutions succeed. This model of ...
November ??, 1991: Announcement of a Chancellor's Commission to enable the Aga Khan University to expand its international role. In his speech, the Prime Minister of Pakistan paid glowing tribute to His Highness the Aga Khan's work.November ??, 1991: Other functions and events the Aga Khan attended where speeches may have been made, during the 17 day visit are unknown. SOURCESismaili.net ...
