News story -- Sub-Saharan Africa's engagement with Muslims, the Qur'an and Islam stretches back over several millennia. In fact to 616 CE, when a number of the Prophet Muhammad's followers, who were fleeing persecution in Mecca, sought refuge in the lands of present-day Eritrea and Ethiopia. It was also in sub-Saharan Africa that the words of the Qur'an were reported to have ...
Mawlana Hazar Imam presided over the 14th cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, which is presented every three years to projects that set new standards of excellence in architecture, planning practices, historic preservation, and landscape architecture. ...
I want to share that we all have the power to re/create our own realities and life is not deterministic as it appears to us. Our deepest trauma in the hindsight ...
The first 1,000 days of a child's life, it is said, sets the stage for all future growth. When children receive the "eat, play, and love" their brains need to develop, they are more likely to grow up as healthy, productive adults who contribute significantly to their families and communities. But there are often many barriers to early childhood development. Income, ...
A must-see exhibition, an Afrofuturist art installation, talks from influential scholars, and pan-African music are all part of our fall season, Africa! Toronto, Canada, 28 November 20199 -- As African countries gain recognition as 21st-century global leaders, the Aga Khan Museum celebrates the continent's power -- past, present, and future -- in an exhibition that runs through 23 February 2020. In ...
Global -- In celebration of the Ismaili Volunteer Corps (IVC) 100th anniversary celebration this year, the USA Jamat reflects on the significance and history of the organization. Thousands of volunteers across the country have served as part of the USA IVC. Here, we highlight a number of individuals - with different paths to their journeys, these volunteers tell a tale of ...
Something remarkable is taking place around the Shigar and Khaplu forts of Baltistan. Immersed in the breathtaking scenery of the Karakoram Mountains - some of the highest in the world -- and steeped in four centuries of folklore and legends, community heritage and culture are being revitalised. Remote communities are reviving ancient construction techniques. Buildings and public places are being restored. In ...
Prince Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth alight from their plane upon arrival at Arusha airport in 1951.Photo: Amin Jaffer Collection, Edmonton, Canada. Introduced by AMIN JAFFER Barakah's appeal to readers to share their photo archives of Mawlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan, and the Imam's family prompted me to approach numerous individuals in Edmonton, Canada, to seek out rare historical ...
Portugal -- No passado dia 23 de novembro, teve lugar no Centro Ismaili de Lisboa um jantar em homenagem a todos os voluntários, por ocasião das celebrações do 100º aniversário do Corpo de Voluntários Ismaili (IVC). Desde que a Comunidade Ismaili se estabeleceu em Portugal na década de 1970, que os membros do Jamat contribuem com o seu tempo e com ...
United States -- The 2019 United States Ismaili Games (USIG), which continue over Thanksgiving Weekend, will bring more than 1,200 athletes and hundreds of spectators and volunteers to Austin, Texas, and the surrounding communities. In recognition of the accomplishments of the athletes and the hundreds of volunteers who have dedicated countless hours to organize the Games, the Williamson County Commissioners Court ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize." -- Voltaire ...
Events -- 27th November 2019 -- The Institute of Ismaili Studies is pleased to announce the launch of recruitment for the International Training Programme for Waezeen for the year 2020-2022. For Online Application: Click here Application Deadline: Sunday, 29 December, 2019 More details will be available soon. Eligibility Criteria: The training programme is open to members of the Jamat who are interested ...
Portugal -- O Aga Khan Economic Planning Board (AKEPB) tem o prazer de informar que assinou um protocolo de colaboração com o ISEG - Lisbon School of Economic & Management. O protocolo já se encontra em vigor e apresenta as seguintes condições: 1) 18% de desconto nos MBA's, pós-graduações e programas de executivos, para os membros e familiares da Comunidade Ismaili. ...
Global -- In case you missed the live webcast from Kazan in September, The Ismaili is pleased to publish the full 50-minute Aga Khan Award for Architecture film. Mawlana Hazar Imam presided over the 14th cycle of the award, which is presented every three years to projects that set new standards of excellence in architecture, planning practices, historic preservation, and landscape ...
Portugal -- A Doença Pulmonar Obstrutiva Crónica é uma doença respiratória que tem como principal causa o consumo de tabaco atual ou passado. No início da doença poderá ter sintomas como tosse e expetoração, muitas vezes desvalorizados no fumador. No entanto, com a continuação da exposição ao tabaco ou a outros gases nocivos, estes sintomas podem tornar-se mais frequentes e incómodos. ...
"Ignition Questions offer forward looking questions, ideas, concepts and perspectives, related to the faith or the community. They are inspired by Hazar Imam's 1986, USA guidance where he said: 'In dealing with the issues that lie ahead of us, we will look at them straight in the face, we will ask the hard questions. If we cannot find immediate answers, we will go on asking the same questions until In'sh'allah, we are inspired to find the answers, but we will not give up. We will not go back to an obscurantism, to a form of intellectual retreat into something which is neither beneficial for the present and certainly not constructive for the future ... we must have the courage to ask the questions and to seek the answers.'"
In 1090, Hasan-i Sabbah acquired Alamut, a remote mountain-fortress in the Rudbur region of Daylam in northern Persia (modern-day Iran), marking the founding of the Nizari Ismaili state. Over the course of the next 150 years, the Ismailis acquired more than 200 fortresses in Iran and Syria, located in the inaccessible mountainous regions for refuge of Ismailis who were fleeing persecution. ...
Pakistan -- The Ismaili Council for Gilgit hosted the Rays of Light exhibition that showcases Mawlana Hazar Imam's life, vision and contributions towards uplifting the quality of life for individuals around the world. Hafiz Hafeezur Rehman, Chief Minister Gilgit-Baltistan, graced the exhibition with his presence at the Shah Karim Hostel in Gilgit where he stated, "This exhibition has helped me understand ...
#shahnamaekarim #AgaKhan #sraheemani #AKDN #Ismailis #OneJamat From the makers of "Mowla-E-Kainaat" series of episodes highlighting the life history of Hazrat Ali (Alayhi As-Salaam) comes the latest "Shahnama-E-Karim". Suleman Raheemani of SR ...
Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Foundation stone-laying ceremony of the Aga Khan Academy, Hyderabad, India, 22 September 2006. Read full speech: ...
[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- ARTOFMANLINESS.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1994: "Plans and visions are poor things if they engender no action." Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Shah: "But Islam first and Ismailism much more so, insists on action. Without action, faith is useless; Without action prayer becomes pride."] ARTICLE: There's a kind of listless, restless, low-grade anxiety permeating our society today. That perpetual exhaustion comes from your refusal to act. The reason you don't feel alive is because you've worn yourself out thinking about things instead of actually doing them. You haven't moved because your habit is to flinch away from action. Action is a kind of back door to the promises of so many philosophies and religions. Theories do no good unless they can reliably guide action. The concept of virtue is useless unless it drives your behavior. You can never know ...
The Ismaili Centre London hosted a reception and launch event in October 2018 for the newly released book Understanding Sharia: Islamic Law in a Globalised World published by I.B. Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS). ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- THE MAGNUM -- Today we present to you the 10 most unusual vehicles, created by both professionals and self-taught inventors. Some of these vehicles already exist, and some will appear in the near future. ...
JollyGul.com "Must watch, must listen" recommendations of devotional music produced by our community members as well as what is created in the wider Muslim world are out for Nov-Dec 2019. Together ...
New York, NY -- Once again, in 2019, the New York City Big Book Award achieved worldwide participation. Entries remained impressive. Book submissions streamed in from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and ...
Global -- As I prepare to leave for Kazan to attend the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, I feel somewhat stunned by the immense privilege of being part of such a unique event set to take place in such a magnificent city... The Aga Khan Award is of course one of the most prestigious and unique of its kind. But for ...
Imagine having to choose between food and soap. That's the reality that makes basic hygiene a luxury for millions of families living in poverty. Every day, parents around the world grieve ...
The Museum's fifth annual lecture celebrates the world-shaping stories of Africa as we welcome to our stage Deborah Ahenkorah, a Ghanaian social entrepreneur and activist - and one of the winners of the 2019 Global Pluralism Award, which recognizes pluralism in action. Join us for an inspiring afternoon as Ahenkorah, co-founder and CEO of Golden Baobab, a social enterprise that aims to promote ...
India -- Sanitation is a pressing global developmental issue on which the Government of India has been working since the past two decades. In line with Government's plans, AKAHI has been successfully working in the field of rural water, sanitation and hygiene promotion since 1995, leading to significant improvement in the hygiene standards of people across its project locations. On the ...
Short-listed for the 2013 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. ...
Global -- Mawlana Hazar Imam toured the site of the Ismaili Center Houston yesterday, 22 November, alongside the Center's design team and the leadership of the USA Jamat. During his trip, Mawlana Hazar Imam also met with City of Houston Mayor the Honorable Sylvester Turner. The Ismaili Center Houston will be the seventh Center, joining others in London, Vancouver, Lisbon, Dubai, ...
GOOGLE.COM -- Imam al-Mustansir had perceived the forthcoming bifurcation in the Ismailis, and that his successor, Imam Nizar, would be supported in the Iranian society more than the Arabian territories. He had, therefore, chosen the name Nizar for his son to bind him and his descendants with Iranian culture. The cause of the Nizarid succession was also supported by Iranian missionaries, notably Hasan bin Sabbah, Nasir Khusraw and others. When Hasan bin Sabbah was yet in Cairo, in 471/1078, De Lacy O'Leary writes that, "it appears, the court was divided into two factions over the question of the succession, the one party holding to the Khalif's elder son Nizar, the other to ...
AREOMAGAZINE.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2015: "If I were trying to sum up in a single word [AKDN's] central objective, I would focus on the word 'opportunity.'"] ARTICLE: Social Justice (the idea of correcting for unequal outcomes [as opposed to correcting for unequal opportunity]) defines fairness in terms of outcomes, rather than processes. It carries an implicit assumption that, were it not for such injustice, equal outcomes would be the norm. However, equal opportunity (the absence of arbitrary discrimination) does not imply equal probability. Since people differ in a myriad of ways, we have no reason to expect equal outcomes. As Sowell notes, "Given the innumerable factors influencing the current well-being and misfortunes of individuals and groups, the presumption of being able to disentangle all these factors and determine ...
Sarah Laiwala, a former tech executive, and Dr. Abida Taher, a nuclear radiologist, teamed up and launched A Cancer Shop (www.acancershop.com) earlier this month of November. In collaboration with experienced oncologists, ...
QUILLETTE.COM -- A deeper investigation into our religious nature casts doubt on the idea that science-centered secular culture can succeed without the sacred. Ultimately, religion is about the need for meaning. When people turn away from one source of meaning, such as religion, they simply look for another. Traditional religion's decline has come with a rise in supernatural, paranormal and related beliefs, Young adults are more inclined to believe in ghosts, astrology, clairvoyance and spiritual energy. And secular liberal regions tend to be where markets for alternative spiritual experiences and products are most lucrative. "They are filling the void that Christianity once owned, without any of the wisdom and culture and restraint that Christianity once provided" Andrew Sullivan wrote in New York magazine. ...
The Aga Khan Music Awards opened with a concert on 29 March, featuring the Gulbenkian Orchestra, led by maestro Pedro Neves, which performed new works with Master Musicians of the Aga Khan Music Initiative. ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- AMAZING PLACES ON OUR PLANET -- Alhambra - The magical Moorish palace/citadel/garden complex in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. ...
