Those who wish to introduce the concept that you can only practise your faith as it was practised hundreds of years ago are introducing a time dimension which is not part of our faith today. It is a very delicate issue, whether it is in science, in medicine, in economics. Interviewer: Akbar S. Ahmed The central issue facing Muslims in the ...
"[Good government] is absolutely essential. I cannot think of anything more central to development than good government. I don't think you can through external forces impose good government. Good government comes from within, not from outside -- and I would tend to say 'good governance' rather than 'good government'." By "governance" he means the competence with which both public and private ...
His Highness the Aga Khan announced the formal establishment of a Tanzanian unit of the Aga Khan Foundation, underlining a significant increase in the Foundation's commitment to East Africa. In welcoming the agreements reached with the Tanzanian Government, the Aga Khan paid particular tribute to the Government's initiatives to enhance the environment for development, contributing to a strengthened sense of confidence ...
The Zafra House is a small gesture, a modest venture, towards creating bridges between worlds which do not often know each other and when they do know something, often misunderstand the values or significance of whatever little they know.... To us, and I hope, for generations to come, the Zafra House is a small token of gratitude towards past worlds whose ...
The Aga Khan thanked the CEC and the British Overseas Development Administration for co-funding the Chitral programme and acknowledged the role of the Government of Pakistan in facilitating the co-operation of national and international agencies in contributing to the development of the region. He underlined that the Rural Support Programme has various dimensions. It is designed to develop the ability of ...
On Monday 10th December, 1990, His Highness the Aga Khan signed a Protocol of Agreement on behalf of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture with the Governor of Cairo H.E. Mahmoud Sherif for the creation of a public park in one of historic Cairo's last remaining open spaces.... During the ceremony, the Aga Khan spoke of the concept of Trust with ...
Democracy should be society's way of protecting the rights and entitlements of all its members. Entitlement, for the weakest or neediest, to their basic rights. But also, entitlement for the most capable, to their highest hopes: entitlement to a world in which they can struggle to achieve their utmost, and come close to doing so. A world in which the individual ...
I have often heard it said, and I think that it is an undercurrent of aspiration widely held in the Islamic world, that it will regain its position of universal recognition. But I think that if that is one of our concerns, we have to be honest about the fact that in order to achieve that, we have to attain political, ...
The essence of the Aga Khan Award is to premiate outstanding quality in all principal aspects of the built environment for Muslims. We seek to identify excellence in landscaped spaces, restored buildings, social housing, high-tech constructions, and others, all over the world. The single binding theme is that the buildings or spaces be essentially used for those born into, or who ...
In villages where the spirit of enterprise and organisation is changing some of the traditional ways, women are coming forward to request assistance to reduce the burden of traditional tasks. They are also learning to increase their incomes by raising poultry, growing vegetables and planting nurseries. With increased income and confidence, they want, and are prepared to help pay for, education ...
His Highness the Aga Khan gave the keynote address at the Rockefeller Foundation Dinner hosted by the Rockefeller family at their Pocantico Hills, N.Y. home on the occasion of the 150th birthday of John D. Rockefeller. The Aga Khan was introduced by his former classmate at Harvard, Mr. David Rockefeller Jr. (Senator Rockefeller). SOURCESAmerican Ismaili, 13 December 1989, pp. 16Canadian Ismaili, ...
We strive for appropriate solutions to the problems of today's Muslim societies. Firmly anchored in the present, the best architectural efforts are those that dare to innovate, to start from what we have, and actively invent the future in practical, empowering terms, thereby creating a heritage for the future. Invariably, such efforts do not copy the past, or import solutions developed ...
Barriers between the Islamic World and the West are beginning to break down everywhere. At the inauguration of the John Addis Islamic Gallery at the British Museum, His Highness the Aga Khan said: Barriers between the Islamic World and the West are beginning to break down everywhere. His Highness the Aga Khan IV SOURCESText (secondary source): ismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED ...
[T]he university must also express intellectual restlessness -- the imperative not merely to apply knowledge, or to confine research to that which is immediately useful. It must embody the fact that knowledge is constantly changing, must ever be challenged and extended. This conviction, this buoyant but disciplined impatience, is what makes modern science a metaphor for modern civilisation. Concerned as they ...
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was the keynote speaker at the event while His Highness the Aga Khan referenced his own address in his speech at the the day after the seminar: I had the opportunity in yesterday's health seminar to mention some of the avenues of research that the University has pursued over the past five years. SOURCESCanadian Ismaili, July 1989ismaili.net ...
If I look to the years ahead and ask myself where are the principal areas of potential growth in the Pakistani economy, I am perplexed as to whether this country can, and should, seek to harness itself to the fastest growing sector of the economies of both North America and Western Europe, and which by the end of this century, 11 ...
His Highness the Aga Khan IV SOURCESismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY)None Found ...
Those in the rural areas must have the same opportunities for education and the resulting self-fulfilment that are available in those in the towns and cities. The talented young people of the countryside and the small towns of Sind have much to give as well as receive to make their contribution to future generations.... The students of the 1990's, the young ...
March ??, 1989 (Karachi): During the 10-day visit, His Highness the Aga Khan , as Chancellor of the Aga Khan University, participated in a number of events at the University in Karachi. SOURCESCanadian Ismaili, July 1989ismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...
As Imam of the Ismaili sect, I am in a position to adapt the teachings of the Qur'an to the modern condition. On the question of modernity the issue is essentially whether one is affecting the fundamental moral fabric of society or whether one is affecting the fundamentals of religious practice. As long as these two aspects are safeguarded the rest ...
[In 1963] the idea, that development companies could commit substantial quantities of equity, to the developing world, and demonstrate that equity could be invested, be made productive, could grow and establish sound long-term enterprises, was, in 1963, a difficult question for people to believe in, and to sustain. I think to-day, that decision has been demonstrated to have been a sound ...
In the late 1950's, the need for a platform to enable the people of Kenya to debate in a public and responsible manner the emerging and important issues affecting their -- and their children's -- future was recognised. I was approached by individuals representing a wide spectrum of society, who asked me to consider establishing a newspaper. In response, I launched ...
December 7, 1988: Dinner hosted by Chief Minister Hon. Omar Ali Juma.December 8, 1988: Aga Khan Network and the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar "Protocol of Co-operation for Development" Signing Ceremony.December 8, 1988: After the signing, His Highness the Aga Khan hosted a lunch in honour of the Chief Minister Hon. Omar Ali Juma. Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister assured ...
We are talking about how the processes can be organised and enhanced and encouraged by governments so that they release the capability of populations to build for themselves. Mona Serageldin's paper showed the risk of disorganised processes and another paper showed the result of organised processes. If you make a comparison with health care, the curriculum of the specialist in primary ...
I wish to express my admiration to the Government of Zanzibar for having taken the initiative to sustain and enhance and support the Stone Town. This is an exciting initiative, one which I would hope to see replicated with success throughout the Islamic world. The restoration of these historic cities should not be an exercise exclusively in cultural continuity but an ...
In the seamless web we call national development, housing is only one factor influencing the quality of human life. But how vital it is to health and human safety, still more fundamentally, the state of a person's home touches deep chords in the human spirit. It can make him proud or ashamed; give him light and a sense of hope or ...
October 11, 1988 (Dar-es-Salaam): Visited the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School.October ??, 1988: Other functions and events His Highness the Aga Khan attended, where speeches may have been made, during the 12 day visit are unknown. SOURCESAs above from ismaili.net. POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...
The large donor agencies have a particular contribution to make to the policy dialogue and to the provision of financial and technical resources. NGOs, with their intimate connection to the grassroots can complement these strengths with knowledge of the needs of the poor and with vital experiments in social and environmental progress. This is precisely the promise of partnership that can, ...
The wise and open policy practised by the Ivory Coast that had produced stable economic conditions for both foreign and international capital. During a brief signing ceremony, His Highness the Aga Khan underlined that the new agreement was the fruit of the wise and open policy practised by the Ivory Coast that had produced stable economic conditions for both foreign and ...
In his address, His Highness the Aga Khan observed there is increasing interest in the world's faiths and cultures, and he believed that Pakistan has much to offer which is unique and of profound and genuine interest for those who wish to learn about and see at first hand the cultural legacies which have been left here to succeeding generations. That ...
In an address to a convention of representatives of various village organizations of the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, His Highness the Aga Khan lauded the efforts of AKRSP and urged the rural masses to pool their resources and skills for the attainment of self-sufficiency, for that is the pre-requisite for any kind of development. He said that a visible change ...
I have spent here in the Northern Areas one of the most inspiring and exciting weeks of my life. Words are shallow in comparison to the depth of feeling and admiration I have for the extraordinary achievements of AKRSP, [Aga Khan Rural Support Programme] and everyone connected with it, achieved in the last five years. Centuries of poverty and despair, human ...
Education, it has been said, enables a person to walk with confidence on unfamiliar ground. What is this Academy doing to prepare its young women to walk with confidence in a world of change? His Highness the Aga Khan opened the Aga Khan Academy at Karimabad, Hunza. In His speech, the Aga Khan said: Education, it has been said, enables a ...
The architecture of the hostel will reflect building designs of the region; it will be earthquake-resistant and , Inshallah, a place of beauty and lightness. His Highness the Aga Khan laid the foundation of the Students' Hostel at Booni, Northern areas, Pakistan. In his speech, the Aga Khan said: The architecture of the hostel will reflect building designs of the region; ...
It is my hope that in the years ahead the village organizations will be able to extend their knowledge, their wisdom, their understanding of the area, to domains of endeavour, which are also important to the quality of life in the Northern Areas. And I refer to health, to education, to housing. These are all areas where In'Sha'Allah as the village ...
November 15, 1987 (Islamabad): Dinner was hosted by the President of Pakistan.November 17, 1987 (Chitral): Lunch organised at Gharamchashma for His Highness the Aga Khan ; local Ismailis built 49 gaily decorated gates signifying the 49 Imams.November 17, 1987 (Chitral): Met a delegation of leaders of sister communities. Dinner hosted by the Commissioner.November 18-21, 1987 (Northern Areas): Visits to Phander, Passu, ...
His Highness the Aga Khan met with M.I.T. students at Cambridge, Massachusets who were the first graduates of a new two-year post-graduate advanced degree programme in Architecture launched in 1985 under the aegis of the Aga Khan Programme for Islamic Architecture at Harvard and M.I.T. At an informal ceremony, the Aga Khan presented the graduating students with a personal gift and ...
Can a poor country, with many competing demands upon it, with a powerful sense of its own culture and languages, rejuvenate in its schools the teaching of the natural sciences? What series of wise policies and investments will knit developing societies more firmly into the international networks of scientific information and ways of thought, will enhance original research and enquiry? Unless ...
I have sought to underwrite our endeavours in social development with initiatives designed to promote economic progress. The two are inextricably linked and must remain so if people are not to be faced with the unacceptable choice between the poverty of the economics of welfare, on the one hand, and raw material greed untempered by any social conscience, on the other. ...
April 8, 1987: National School of Public Health visit.April 8, 1987: Dinner hosted by President Mario Soares. SOURCESAs above from ismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...
