Nasir Khusraw (1004- ca.1077) was born in Qobadiyan in the eastern Iranian province of Khurasan. He did well at school, learning Persian and Arabic as well as sciences, literature, mathematics, philosophy, religious sciences, and history. Following his family's tradition, Nasir joined the government bureaucracy in a financial capacity, perhaps as tax collector. Nasir enjoyed to travel and "relished the opportunity to ...
As the founder of the popular online community Muslim Mamas, Nargis Jahan-Uddin has a front row seat to the ongoing interests and concerns of Muslim mothers. She gives us a look into the contemporary online world of Muslim motherhood, and talks about her own journey from an impoverished neighbourhood of London, to creating this growing online community, which now includes a lifestyle website ...
Tasneem Alsultan is a photographer based in Saudi Arabia. Her work has documented major changes in Saudi culture for The New York Times, National Geographic and others. But she also captures the more ordinary aspects of life. She won first prize in the 2017 World Photography Organisation Awards for Saudi Tales of Loves, a series showcasing love stories of all kinds, from ...
Ian Whiteman was a fixture of the 60's UK music scene and member of the cult classic bands Mighty Baby and The Habibiyya. He reflects on the early early days of psychedelic rock, and talks about how Islam became a major part of that scene, leading to his own conversion and his friendship with Yusuf Islam, A.K.A. Cat Stevens. His latest album ...
Marina Tabassum is an acclaimed Bangladeshi architect whose work includes Bangladesh's underground Museum of Independence and the award-winning Bait Ur Rouf Mosque. She talks about working with local materials, the rich landscape of Bangladesh's capital city, Dhaka, and why she designed $200 mobile houses to address climate change. Marina Tabassum is the founder of Marina Tabassum Architects and the academic director of the ...
Khalid Albaih is a Sudanese political cartoonist, who publishes cartoons online under the name Khartoon! as well as in galleries and publications around the world. He talks about how Superman shaped his worldview, the dangers of his work, and why he's trying to change his relationship with the internet. Learn more about This Being Human: ...
Roni Helou is a rising star from Lebanon's fashion scene. The young designer talks about making fashion with a message, why he staged a photoshoot on a mountain of garbage, and surviving the explosion that devastated Beirut in 2020. Learn more about This Being Human: ...
Hamid Dabashi calls himself "the first Muslim intellectual." He is the author of more than twenty books, a consultant on major Hollywood films, a curator and juror of film festivals, and a professor of Iranian Studies and comparative literature at Columbia University. He talks about how an early love of Indian musicals, his mother's poetry and travelling storytellers led him towards a life ...
HLI.ORG -- Americans are appallingly ignorant on abortion statistics. California college students believe abortion is illegal after the first trimester and that, in the United States, less than 100,000 abortions occur each year. The actual number is over 10 times more and, in many places [ED: including all of Canada], abortion is freely available through all nine months of pregnancy. Polls reveal that people believe the "hard cases" (rape, incest, women's health/lives, birth defects) account for anywhere from 25% to 50% of all abortions. The reality, from a survey of more than 2.4 million abortions, is that just 0.4% of abortions are for rape or incest and 3.5% for all "hard cases". Even the Guttmacher Institute (formerly the research arm of Planned Parenthood -- the largest American provider of abortions) puts the figures at less than 1.5% for rape or incest and 7% for all "hard cases". World-wide, the numbers are similar. In 1998, Guttmacher
GOOGLE.COM -- When disagreeing with authorities, Hasan al-Basri approach was a two-fold loyalty -- to one's community and to one's conscience. The true Muslim must, above all, remain "loyal to his community," by respecting constituted authority and giving it his obedience. So while he refused to revolt, Hasan also refused to remain silent in the face of injustice. He constantly spoke of a Muslim's duty to not just observe the Law, but also urge his brethen to respect it. So, instead of keeping silent about the misdeeds of authorities, he reproached them, whether they were Caliphs or their Governors. Such was Hasan's attitude towards power and authority -- loyal and courageous, but nevertheless ill at ease. It pre-supposes not only ...
Back to back Group 1 wins for the three-year-old colt. The three-year-old colt showed a strong turn of foot again to prevail against a competitive field in the Gr.1 Eclipse Stakes at Sandown today. He was winning a second consecutive Group 1 following his five-length success in the Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club last month. Positioned at the rear of the ...
Portugal -- In line with all jurisdictions worldwide, Jamati Institutions launches the new platform - Ismaili Institutions Portugal (II Portugal). Ismaili Institutions Portugal is a new digital platform, which replaces the previous JIS platform (Jamati Information System) and will centralize data related to the Jamat and Institutions, ensuring a simpler, more agile and improved functional communication, allowing the community and institutions ...
PRAGERU.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Shah, 1934: "As an ideal, my preference is for [Indian] self-government either on the American federal plan or on Swiss lines leaving ultimate power through the Initiative, the Referendum, and perhaps the Recall."] ARTICLE: After the 1787 Constitutional Convention, legend says a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what kind of government had been created. Franklin responded "...a republic, madam. If you can keep it." A republic? But isn't our country a democracy? Actually, pure democracy frightened the Convention Delegates as a path to mob rule so they rejected it. Instead, they built both democratic and non-democratic features into the Constitution to protect liberty. That's why Wyoming has 2 Senators, the same number as California and every other state, so large population states like California can't overwhelm the needs and interests of small states like Wyoming. "More democratic" doesn't always mean more just. A republic is a brilliant way of diffusing power. Our founders understood ...
Portugal -- Uma delegação do Imamat Ismaili liderada pelo Príncipe Rahim está a participar na Conferência dos Oceanos em Lisboa a convite das Nações Unidas (ONU). A conferência visa sensibilizar e agir em torno da alarmante degradação dos oceanos do planeta - que não só nos fornecem oxigénio, alimentos e meios de subsistência, mas também actuam como um gigantesco meio de ...
The Aga Khan Foundation's Central Asia Stunting Reduction Initiative (CASRI) works to support maternal and infant health in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan. With support through the Patchwork Collective's Maternal and Infant Health Award, Aga Khan Foundation proposes to scale CASRI to continue breaking the intergenerational cycle of undernutrition in mothers and children in Central Asia. ...
People are facing crises, pain and suffering, so we need to address how we can embrace happiness in our daily lives. Knowing God is always there to hold us in every situation gives hope and motivation to cope with life's challenges. ...
It takes the reader through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices, compromises and sacrifices that (may) lead to a happy life. ...
Spiritual Quest: Reflections on Qur'anic prayer according to the teachings of Imam Ali" talks about how the teachings of Imam Ali could motivate an intellectual and rational engagement with the Qur'an, leading to a better understanding of the religious experience. ...
An Annual award program hosted by Ernst & Young, the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ is a unique global program that supports entrepreneurs as they unlock their ambitions by recognizing entrepreneurial ...
Lisbon, Portugal, 29 June 2022 - A delegation led by Prince Rahim Aga Khan is attending the Ocean Conference in Lisbon at the invitation of the United Nations (UN). To raise awareness and action around the alarming degradation of the planet's oceans - which not only provide us with oxygen, food and livelihoods, but act as a giant carbon sink - ...
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Global -- An Ismaili Imamat delegation led by Prince Rahim is attending the Ocean Conference in Lisbon at the invitation of the United Nations (UN). The conference aims to raise awareness and action around the alarming degradation of the planet's oceans - which not only provide us with oxygen, food and livelihoods, but act as a giant carbon sink. Our ocean ...
Mawlana Hazar Imam's final Takht Nashini ceremony was held in Bombay (now Mumbai) on 11 March 1958.Mawlana Hazar Imam with his mother, Princess Joan Aly Khan, in Bombay (now Mumbai) for the Takht Nashini ceremony. Photo: Depth of Field Edited by Gary OtteTakht Nashini in Bombay. Image: 25 Years in Pictures, Islamic Publications Ltd., London, 1983 "Bombay, as you have reminded, ...
Global -- On 11 July 2022, the global Jamat will commemorate a rare milestone - Mawlana Hazar Imam's 65th Imamat Day. Here, we look back at his fourth decade as Imam. This decade saw a rise in the popularity of personal computing, and the emergence of the World Wide Web as a form of communication, which accelerated the process of globalisation. ...
By: Sadruddin Noorani, Chicago, USA Who are the "Ahl al-Kitab"? Ahl al-Kitab, meaning "possessors of the Scripture," or "people of the Book", is a specific term accorded to Jews and Christians ...
USA -- The Kennesaw State University Department of Architecture, in collaboration with the Ismaili Council for the Southeastern United States, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and commemorated the fifth anniversary of The Global Centre for Pluralism in Ottawa, Canada on April 13, 2022. The program was titled, "Building for Change", acknowledging the power of architecture to bring about meaningful change ...
#Speech made by His Highness the #AgaKhan at the Conference on Central Asia and Europe in Berlin, Germany on 13 November 2007. Read the full speech here: For more about the Aga Khan Development Network, visit ...
THEFEDERALIST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2003: "[Education] must also stimulate students to consider a variety of perspectives on some of the fundamental questions posed by the human condition: 'What is truth?' 'What is reality?' and 'What are my duties to my fellow man, to my country and *to God?*'"] ARTICLE: The US Supreme Court's June 21, 6-3 ruling shows learning doesn't happen in a moral vacuum, and it's dangerously absurd to insist otherwise. Both the majority and dissenting opinions illuminate a truth about education and religion: the two are closely intertwined. All education is religious, and all religion involves education. Although people think schools have replaced religous values and beliefs with knowledge and skills, they are sorely mistaken. All schools are quite religious, it's just that their religion is secular humanism. They've replaced God with model human beings (world leaders, civil rights activists, scientists, etc.) not to mention, the unrelenting effort to replace the home and church community with the school community. That makes every non-secular school ...
THEFEDERALIST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2006: "But if freedom of religion deteriorates into freedom from religion, then societies will find themselves lost in a bleak and unpromising landscape with no compass, no roadmap and no sense of ultimate direction." ~~ "A healthy sense of public integrity, in my view, will be difficult to nurture over time without a strong religious underpinning." ~~ "How can we inspire people to reach beyond rampant materilaism, self-indulgent individualism, and unprincipled relativism?"] ARTICLE: The West is facing its deepest crisis and addressing the crisis requires removing militant secularists' monopoly on education, former U.S. Attorney General, William Barr said at a Chicago conference. He explained self-government cannot exist without a citizenry that is committed to traditional religion. But anti-religious forces now control the minds of American kids due to their monopoly on U.S. education institutions. "You can't finesse it anymore. You can't pretend what's being taught in schools is compatible with traditional religion, nor can you pretend schools are neutral any more." "The last couple of hundred years [has created a new] worldview that boils questions of morality solely down to an individual's internal feelings." Barr said anti-religion leftists have effectively ...
Aryannah Rollinson (Mossadiq Umedaly's daughter) The Globe and Mail, June 26, 2022 Mossadiq Umedaly: Entrepreneur. Refugee. Philanthropist. Problem solver. Born July 4, 1951, in Kampala, Uganda; died Dec. 28, 2021, in ...
Son of Invincible Spirit show off speed. SHARTASH demonstrated both a determined attitude and a strong turn of foot to win the Gr.2 Railway Stakes at The Curragh on Saturday, a first success for H.H. the Aga Khan in the prestigious two-year-old contest. The Invincible Spirit colt defeated the more experienced Ballydoyle runner Blackbeard, and in doing so became the first ...
Author: Deb Cummings How does splitting an order of eggs Benedict and a tea bag allow someone enough capital to create not one, but hundreds of awards and scholarships? Not that ...
Contributed by Kamruddin Rashid It is with the great pleasure that I share this year's amazing results of the East York Champs Team in Toronto for the Aga Khan Foundation Canada's ...
Mawlana Hazar Imam's fifth Takht Nashini ceremony was held in Dacca, Bangladesh, on 12 February 1958.Takht Nashini in Dacca. Image: 25 Years in Pictures, Islamic Publications Ltd., London, 1983 "The position which I hold has no political significance. The Ismailis are scattered all over the world, owing allegiance to many flags and serving beneath many different forms of government. In taking ...
Global -- You've heard it a hundred times: be careful what you forward on WhatsApp. But at the same time, be careful what you dismiss on WhatsApp -- a lesson Iman Vellani learned after receiving a message that changed her life. Iman is from Markham, Ontario, and attends Unionville Jamatkhana. On 8 June 2022 she catapulted to international fame by debuting ...
