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The integrated character of this innovative cultural development endeavour [the restored Shigar fort] has been underpinned and complemented by the work of other institutions of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), such as the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP), which has a long record of supporting rural communities in the Northern Areas. When the AKDN institutions first began working in ...

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Do you think the that role of Imam is something everybody exactly understands? Not in the West Interviewer: Unknown Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version . You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. ... what ever you follow spiritually is accepted by law by ...

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November 30, 1959 (San Francisco, California): Speech at the San Francisco Fairmout Hotel, titled "Africa and its Multiracial Society", under the auspices of World Affairs Council of Northern California.November ??, 1959 (Washington DC): Address to the Board of Directors of Chase National Bank.November ??, 1959 (Washington DC): Meeting with President Nixon.November ??, 1959 (Cambridge, Massachusetts): Visit to Harvard University. SOURCESSpeeches II, ...

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[My grandfather] was a most extraordinary leader in the sense that anybody who came in contact with him was immediately ... felt very, very close to him. If you spoke to him, he, in a matter of minutes, would know what your problems were and you really felt that he was interested and he could help you. And this went both ...

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Drawing on the AKDN's experiences across Africa and Asia, the Aga Khan presented to the UNESCO Executive Board three strategic themes that he believed could "enlarge the contribution to human opportunity that can be gained from the entrepreneurial energies evident in the developing world." The first was to concentrate on the qualitative improvement -- to replaceable levels -- of institutions, services ...

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Such deep and abiding affinities [between Christendom and the Muslim world] demonstrate that so-called conflicts between East and West -- whether past or present -- are political or ideological constructs that have no real basis in deeper cultural and religious fact. Beyond and apart from the controversies highlighted by contemporary observers (and acerbated by modern nationalistic concepts originally alien to Islam) ...

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I am a Muslim and Muslims believe that all men are equal no matter what the colour of their skin and I am therefore fundamentally opposed to apartheid in any form. I would wish to emphasize that Islam is probably the most multi-racial faith existing. Within this context, I think it is known that I do not believe it is in ...

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At a press conference at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, His Royal Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan, told how much he wants success for the African Research Foundation, to which he has lent his enormous prestige as honorary chairman. He said the Foundation needs $2.5 million beyond more than $1 million he has pledged to its program. He told how its first ...

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This seminar has been a source of happiness to me personally in that it has confirmed that we all believe a better, more appropriate, and more sympathetic environment can be created for those hundreds of millions of men and women throughout the world who believe in Islam. It has confirmed the desire to invigorate a Muslim will for an Islamic environment.... ...

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The Aga Khan spoke of Spain's contribution to Architecture and Art and said that the country would continue to be a major force in addressing the changing and complex issues of man's relationship to the physical environment in which he lives. He added, "These relationships are fundamentally important, because they are central to any and all improvements in the quality of ...

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We have no notion of the accumulation of wealth being evil ... It's how you use it. The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society. Interviewer: James Reginato in Aigelmont His Highness Prince Karim, the fourth Aga Khan and 49th ...

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I think the notion of time is different. I think in my case, I'm working in an institution whose time context is different from that of a politician.... You start with an idea and then you let it grow.... I think at the moment there is a tendency to want to see political change occurring in the developing world very rapidly. ...

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Modernity is part of the concern of the award and our objective is to permeate good architecture, not to freeze it any time. The symbols of the past may be re-utilised in modern architecture, they may be dropped, new symbols may come forward -- we need continuity, particularly in conservation, but, no, we're not going to stymie creativity of the Islamic ...

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Think of the world of the late 50s and the early 60s. A number of countries were termed "basket-cases". A number of statements were made that developing countries could never feed themselves. A number of statements were made that democracy could not survive. I don't like these statements. And I think that they have been flawed in a number of areas ...

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The aim of the seminar is to review and consider the most important issues involved in the creation of a new built environment throughout the Islamic world. It is our hope that out of this seminar will come an identification of the real problems we face today and perhaps a number of possible solutions. We intend to hold five more seminars ...

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His Highness the Aga Khan IV SOURCESismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY)None Found ...

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April ??, 1992 (Nairobi, Kenya): Aga Khan Development Network and Government of Kenya "Accord of Co-operation for Development" Signing Ceremony. At the signing ceremony in Nairobi, President Moi of Kenya commended the institutions of the development network for actively serving Kenya in the fields of education and health for more than 50 years. "They were among the pioneers who opened up ...

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His Highness the Aga Khan IV SOURCES POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...

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The Aga Khan Development Network recognises the critical need for long-term growth and employment: we believe it is best met by private individuals investing their own resources in these endeavours. The genius of the Third World is in its peoples.... In their diversity, vitality, creativity an resilience, they represent the hope for the future and the greatest of the many resources ...

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Men and women should marry freely with their own choice, and that free choice is the highest and holiest of all blessings. The witnesses come only to insure the legal consequences of the marriage. And if it fails -- as it must fail in some cases, given the essential nature of the instincts on which the attraction is founded -- a ...

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This year was the 40th anniversary of the yacht club, Costa Smeralda. What's been your highlights during that period? Two I would recollect, which was the first challenge for the America's Cup. Italy had never challenged and as you know it's a challenge done by clubs. So the yacht club, Costa Smeralda, was the first boat to challenge with Azzura [in ...

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A special convocation was held conferring His Highness the Aga Khan with an Honorary Fellowship of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan. SOURCESIsmaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...

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Substantial growth must be rooted in policies that preserve the rural environment, enable rural communities to live in harmony with their surroundings and slow down the process of urbanization. In his address, His Highness the Aga Khan spoke of the need to rebalance the heavy weight of urban and industrial bias in development. Substantial growth must be rooted in policies that ...

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We Ismailis now in the same spirit [as Hazrat Ali had done] accept the Khalifat of the first Khalifs and such other Khalifs as during the last thirteen centuries helped the cause of Islam, politically, socially and from a worldly point of view. On the other hand the Spiritual Imamat remained with Hazrat Ali and remains with his direct descendants always ...

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The Christian burial ceremony and the prayers then said by the presiding ecclesiastics refer to resurrection in a way that implies some kind of similarity with the supposed historical resurrection of Christ three days after his death.... The Hindu and Buddhistic explanations of life after death, with always the influence of the soul taking forms either much lower, such as the ...

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