Throughout his own, long career, António Guterres has been a passionate and effective advocate on these issues, articulating both the rights of the refugees and the responsibilities of society to support and to integrate them. Underlying both his words and his work is a conviction, which I share, that any person's worth in this world does not depend on where he ...
[The Aga Khan Development Network's] experience has been considerable. But what have we learned from it? Let me share a quick overview. First, I would underline that our approaches have to be long-term. Sporadic interventions produce sporadic results, and each new burst of attention and activity must then start over again. The key to sustained progress is the creation of sustainable ...
We are pleased to publish the NanoWisdoms Archive Introductory Video for you to share with your family, friends and Jamats. The short video is in 1080p HD making it deal to show at Jamati presentations or seminars that you deliver, BUI/RE classes or camps you teach, book-club meetings, Ismaili Student Association and business association meetings, or private gatherings. Feel free to ...
Three years ago the NanoWisdoms Archive of Imamat Speeches, Interviews and Writings was given special permission by Aiglemont to publish Mawlana Hazar Imam's speeches. Today, as we celebrate our third anniversary, we are happy to report that the Archive is thriving thanks to the Jamat's support. Our third year was, by all measures, a momentous year. Recently, tens of thousands viewed ...
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 ...
Today, 10 March, 2014, His Highness the Aga Khan delivered the 88th Stephen A. Ogden, Jr. '60 Memorial Lecture at Brown University, Rhode Island. We are pleased to bring you the video of the full event, which includes Christina Paxson's, President, Brown University, introductory remarks and her apres-lecture conversation with the Aga Khan. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or ...
[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 ...
Eighteen years ago, His Highness the Aga Khan delivered Brown University's (Providence, USA) 1996 Commencement Ceremony, becoming the first Muslim to deliver the address in the university's then 232 year history. Next week, on 10 March 2014, as part of Brown's 250th anniversary celebrations, the Aga Khan will return to Brown to deliver the 88th Stephen A. Ogden, Jr. '60 Memorial ...
Next week, on 10 March 2014, His Highness the Aga Khan will deliver the 88th Stephen A. Ogden, Jr. '60 Memorial Lecture at Brown University, Rhode Island. However, this is not the first time he has spoken at Brown University. Eighteen years ago, the Aga Khan delivered Brown University's 1996 Commencement Ceremony address, becoming the first Muslim to deliver it in ...
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 ...
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 ...
It is a particularly happy day, for me, that we are extending this partnership, strengthening it, giving it new opportunities, in areas of development needs that are essential -- young children, isolated peoples, post conflict situations. So we have a partner, a wonderful partner, who works with us not in the easy, comfortable parts of the world, but who works with ...
Today, 27 February, 2014, by invitation of the Prime Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, His Highness the Aga Khan spoke in the Chamber of the House of Commons, addressing both the Members of the Senate and the House of Commons. We are pleased to bring you the full event video with speeches by the Prime Minster of Canada, ...
When the clashes of modern times have come, they have most often grown out of particular political circumstances, the twists and turns of power relationships and economic ambitions, rather than deep theological divides. Yet sadly, what is highly abnormal in the Islamic world gets mistaken for what is normal. Of course, media perceptions of our world in recent years have often ...
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 ...
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 ...
NanoWisdoms is pleased to launch its Essential Reading Series. The series will publish aggregate collections of our Extended Quotes related to broad themes. Each Essential Reading is published in an attractive PDF format for posting on jamatkhana notice boards or as teaching aids, seminar handouts, discussion topics, general references, etc.. Our first issue, "Remarks by the Aga Khans III & IV ...
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) ...
The NanoWisdoms Archive is pleased to announce its 2014 calendar, featuring a captivating selection of quotes from His Highness the Aga Khan chosen from among our most popular Extended Quotes. POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...
We are planning now to build new undergraduate Faculties of Arts and Sciences, one in Karachi and one in Arusha in Tanzania. We plan to achieve this goal progressively as circumstances and resources allow. Yes, it will be a time-consuming exercise, but our planning has been advancing very quickly indeed. Again, developing a liberal arts capacity will not only fulfil AKU's ...
Later this week, His Highness the Aga Khan will preside over the Aga Khan University's 2013 convocation ceremony. 2013 is a special year for AKU, one that celebrates many milestones: the 30th anniversary of the granting of the University's charter, the 30th graduating class of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, the 25th graduating class of the Medical College and the ...
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 ...
In this seminal speech -- made when he presided over the Aga Khan University's convocation in 2006, the Aga Khan brings the future into clear perspective with his practical and pragmatic world-view, stressing that "we are moving into a new epoch of history [which many] observers describe ... as the 'Knowledge Society'." This, he explains, is due to several factors, including ...
Is it not true that the quality of our lives is fundamentally shaped by the spaces in which we live, spaces that provide physical security, and spaces where we seek spiritual enrichment? They are spaces where we work, and where we pause from work; where we expand our minds and restore our health, places where we congregate and where we meditate; ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
As you know I attach great importance to Indian history and to the great caliphates, the great empires of the Muslim world, because I believe there's always something to learn. The past is a place to learn, even if the future is different, and this is why I have spent considerable time in trying to enhance in India the Mughal history ...
The network concept that I have mentioned is something that makes our academy endeavour a unique and distinctive one. And if there is one central thought I would like to have you take away from this day, it is the interconnected, international dimension of our envisioned academy experience. Our planning is that there eventually will be 18 Academies, situated in 14 ...
The word "partnership," in fact, could be the watchword of this celebration. What we honour today, above all else is the spirit of partnership in which this work has unfolded. In my view, an Ethic of Partnership must be at the centre of any successful project of this sort. Among other things, an Ethic of Partnership means that traditional separations between ...
As I think back to the origins of this Award almost four decades ago, I recall my own growing realisation at that time that the proud architectural heritage of the Islamic world was endangered. Here was one of the world's great architectural traditions, often inspired, as major architectural flowerings are so often, by one of the world's great religious faiths. And ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
The NanoWisdoms Archive of Imamat Speeches, Interviews and Writings wishes all Imamat Day Mubarak. In keeping with the theme of our Imamat Day card, we would like to share with you some important quotes of His Highness the Aga Khan in which he explains that social progress -- communal or national -- depends on trusting people: delegating authority, discretion and decision ...
As prescribed in the Qur'an, each year Muslims commemorate Ramadan -- the month "in which was revealed the Qur'an" (Qur'an 2:185) -- with special reverence. For Muslims, it is a month of reflection, of self-restraint, of purification and of benevolence all with an eye strengthening one's spiritual and moral character generally. To help us in our development, fasting was prescribed: "O ...
In these two lovely articles, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III, offers much needed simple advices on how to stay happy pointing out, for example:that "the fundamental question [is]: Are you in harmony with God? If you are -- you are happy," that "happiness never depends on one's surroundings; it depends altogether and exclusively on oneself" and that "you should ...
I have become convinced that the human and economic action implied in the conservation or rehabilitation of cultural heritage is closely related, no matter where they occur.... The renewal or restoration of a place of culture always implies the necessity of considering the economic potential destined to ensure the sustainability of the effort in the long term. The concept is simple. ...
