A conversation with Dr. John Esposito -- Professor of International Affairs and Religion at Georgetown University and Director of their Bridge Initiative -- connecting the academic study of Islamophobia with the public square. Dr. Esposito gives his insights on pluralism, globalization, religious fundamentalism, Islam, the media, journalism, and media bubbles. This interview was published for the Boniuk Institute of Rice University. ...
GOOGLE.COM -- [One who moves about with the Imam] should not look upon this position as a permanent affair. He should always wait for the orders of the Imam. He should look upon it as nothing but a favour from the Imam. If he is deprived of this honour, he should not be forgetful of the previous favours of the Imam. He should not look upon his not being selected for the job as a discredit to him or a wrong move on the part of the Imam. This is as much a favour on him as the former favours of the Imam. ...
GOOGLE.COM -- Imam Jafar Sadiq said, "In this matter [of acknowledging the Imam of his time], our relations and others are all alike. It is the duty of the relatives of the Imam to know the true position of the Imam and set an example to others by submitting themselves to his will.... They should never allow themselves to be carried away by the idea that because of their relationship with the Imams they are superior to others. They should never imagine that because of their relationship they are exempted from the duties which are imposed on us all alike. On the contrary they should realize that their responsibility in the matter of devotion to the Imam is much heavier than that of any one else. ...
Ismaili Digest Exclusive for MAY 2019 -- Each month enjoy the most popular new articles and videos viewed by the Jamat from over 36 of the best Ismaili websites with just one click! 'Most popular' means most viewed post(s) on each website, excluding duplicate postings and Event Alerts. NOTE: Posts are randomly ordered.
LIVE WEBCAST -- CENTRE FOR PLURALISM -- DATE: TUESDAY 11 JUNE 2019: 11:00am Vancouver (PDT) ~ 12:00noon Calgary (MDT) ~ 1:00pm Chicago/Houston (CDT) ~ 2:00pm New York/Toronto (EDT) ~ 7:00pm Lisbon/London (WEST/BST) ~ 8:00pm Paris (CEST) ~ 9:00pm Nairobi (EAT) ~ 10:00pm Dubai (GST) ~ 11:00pm Karachi (PKT)/Dushanbe (TJT) ~ 11:30pm Mumbai (IST) ~ WED 12 JUN: 2:00am Singapore (SGT) ~ 4:00am Sydney (AEST). Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, will deliver the 2019 Annual Pluralism Lecture, addressing the theme of pluralism and the Sustainable Development Goals. The Lecture will be livestreamed from Lisbon, Portugal. ...
United States -- The Sugar Land City Council Candidates Forum was organized by the League of Women Voters and the Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce, and held at the Ismaili Jamatkhana and Center, on Saturday April 20, 2019. As host Murad Ajani, President of the Aga Khan Council for the Southwestern United States, gave the welcome address to the audience and ...
India, 7 June 2019 - Across the spectrum of population affected by poor sanitation facilities, women and girls are often more adversely and disproportionately affected. They face a loss of personal dignity and are at a safety risk because of a lack of access to sanitation facilities. Absence of facilities often forces them to restrict their diet, which can have adverse ...
AKDN.ORG -- Wakhan is an undiscovered, uncrowded gem not yet on the tourist map of the world. Cultivate a spirit of adventure and open heartedness, and add to it self reliance, sound judgment and good planning and you have the recipe for an unforgettable trip to one of the earth's most exotic landscapes. For more than 2,500 years the Wakhan Corridor has been the homeland of Wakhi people. Today about 10,000 Wakhi live in Afghanistan's Wakhan District, with another 40,000 living in adjacent areas of Tajikistan, Pakistan and China.... Wakhi people are Isma'ili Muslims, whose spiritual leader is the Aga Khan. ...
Discover London's best and most innovative projects featured in the New London Awards 2019. NLA's annual New London Awards, presented in association with the Mayor of London, celebrate the very best ...
NORTH YORK'S JURASSIC PARK! A NEW addition to the Raptors Legendary Jurassic Park! The Aga Khan Museum and the Aga Khan Park on 77 Wynford Drive in Toronto's North York region, will be showing Game 4 of the NBA finals between the Toronto Raptors and the Golden State Warriors on its front wall on Friday June 4th; tip off 9 P.M. ...
Global -- The word environment has many layers of meaning. It can be understood as our surroundings, conditions, or the natural world as a whole. It is comprised of our planet and its atmosphere, humans, animals, plants, and built structures that societies construct. The environment is all around us, and everyday we live within it. The faith of Islam teaches followers ...
By Onno Ruhl, General Manager, Aga Khan Agency for Habitat The environment takes care of not just human beings but also all other life forms that exist on this planet by providing adequate resources to ensure their survival. However, over the years humans have exploited these resources to satisfy not just their needs, often also their greed. Human ventures have discounted ...
IFSTUDIES.ORG -- Considerable research over the last two decades has been devoted to the relationship between religious participation and health and well-being. Our research on this topic at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health links religious service attendance to a number of better health outcomes ... Our work also indicates that religious service attendance is associated with greater marital stability -- or more specifically, with a lower likelihood of divorce. In fact, a number of studies have found similar results: namely, that those who attend religious services are about 30% to 50% less likely to divorce than those who do not. ...
QUILLETTE.COM -- In the main, religion is a force for good in the families we examined in this report -- from 11 countries ranging from Mexico to Canada, from the United States to Ireland. Partners who attend religious services together tend to do better than their secular peers and their peers in nominally religious, or religiously mixed, relationships. They are more likely to report higher-quality relationships marked by greater satisfaction, commitment, attachment, and stability, for instance. Men and women who share a faith are also significantly more likely to say they are "strongly satisfied" with their sexual relationship. The effects are especially large for women here ...
QUOTEFANCY.COM -- "Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything." -- Robert Rubin ...
United States -- Few have the vision and courage to run for public office. It is a difficult path to traverse, but one that allows those with a commitment to voice their concerns and stand up for their values. Annisa Karim, from southwest Florida, did just that. She ran for the Florida State Senate in 2018. Although she came just short ...
United States -- "Having team members from different Jamatkhanas and ages allowed me to learn from and interact with people that I usually wouldn't," said Arisha Keshwani, an athlete playing co-ed volleyball for the first time. This year's tournament was especially unique for the diversity among the athletes, who ranged in age from 7 to 65, and experienced or novice. Similar ...
Global -- The First Aga Khan: Memoirs of the 46th Ismaili Imam was recently launched by the Institute of Ismaili Studies. Part of the Ismaili Texts and Translations Series, the book was published in honour of Mawlana Hazar Imam's Diamond Jubilee. It is the first English translation of the original Persian manuscript, 'Ibrat-afza, which was composed by Imam Hasan Ali Shah ...
Global -- On a spring evening last month in London, The Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) launched their newest publication, entitled The First Aga Khan: Memoirs of the 46th Ismaili Imam. The book covers a significant period of Ismaili history and sheds light on the remarkable life and career of the 46th Ismaili Imam - Mawlana Hasan Ali Shah. Part of ...
No passado dia 30 de abril, o Aga Khan Economic Planning Board dinamizou uma Sessão Informativa no Centro Ismaili de Lisboa, com o tema "Como é que a Inteligência Artificial pode ser aplicada nas nossas vidas e nos nossos negócios", que teve como orador o Dr. Manuel Dias, Professor universitário e Diretor da Microsoft Portugal. Veja aqui os melhores momentos. ...
Official music video of #SalimSulaiman's latest single #YaKhuda, in collaboration with the amazing MaherZain. Come, celebrate the spirit of #Eid with us and share this song with your friends and family. ...
Canada -- Life can sometimes be stressful and challenging. While we are all doing the best we can to support ourselves and those around us, every once in a while, we may need some help. The following are a list of services and programs to help you maintain and improve your mental health: Living Life to the Full (LLTTF) This is ...
Pictures & story by Mansoor Ladha Sound of drums filled the air with young men in colourful traditional attire and women dressed in multi-coloured saris greeted us as we entered Mumbai's ...
During the last ten days of Ramadan, it is not uncommon to find women, men, and children in some households gathered together at one corner of the house in front of ...
Hoje festejamos o Eid ul-Fitr, a festa do "quebrar do jejum", isto é, do fim do abençoado mês do Ramadão, em que os primeiros versículos do Sagrado Qur'an foram revelados ao Profeta Muhammad (que a paz esteja com e com a sua família). O Ramadão é um período em que os muçulmanos buscam a renovação e a purificação espiritual, através de ...
OZANVAROL.COM -- If you're like most people, you'll picture the bad outcomes--the business that never took off, the penalty kick you missed, or the job interview you bombed. Poker players, as Annie Duke argues in Thinking in Bets, the quality of the input isn't the same as the quality of the output. It's possible for good decisions to lead to bad outcomes. But we reward bad decisions that lead to good outcomes and change good decisions merely because they produced a bad outcome. You have to take the lenses off--by pivoting your focus from the seemingly awful outcome to the inputs--in order to see clearly. ...
"A Muslim must play an active role in helping his family and the brotherhood of believers. The object is not to achieve status, wealth and power, but to contribute to society's overall development. This implies moral responsibility to help the weaker, less fortunate members." -- His Highness the Aga Khan, Toronto, May 14, 1987. [1] EID MUBARAK A new Moon occurs ...
By Sujjawal Ahmad In the Middle Ages, Neoplatonic ideas were studied and discussed by many Muslim thinkers, notable among them are al-Farabi, Avicenna, the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan- i safa), and ...
In 297 AH/909 CE, Imam al-Mahdi established the Fatimid caliphate in North Africa. The dynasty was named after Fatima, the Prophet's daughter and Imam 'Ali's wife, through whom the Ismaili Imams traced their ancestry. Born in 319/931, the fourth Fatimid Caliph and fourteenth Ismaili Imam, Abu Tamim Ma'add succeeded his father in 341/953, adopting the regal title of 'al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah, ...
Thousands of Canadians face hunger every year and food banks across the country are unable to keep up with the demand. Especially in the summer months.Ismaili Civic Ramadan Food Drive serves to ...
United Kingdom -- The Ismaili Centre, in partnership with the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, is delighted to announce Seeing Through Babel, a solo exhibition by the Syrian-Armenian artist Kevork Mourad. Exhibition dates: 1 July 2019 -- 15 August 2019 Open invitation to view the artwork being created: 21 -- 30 June 2019, 11am-6pm Exhibition Launch/Private Press View: 1 July 2019, 6-8pm ...
To celebrate Eid, get 20% off your entire order! Visit the.ismaili/shop and use discount code EID20 at checkout to redeem this offer. Offer ends on 10 June 2019. ...
Nairobi, Kenya, 30 May 2019 - The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) today signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UN agency focused on sustainable urbanisation, UN - Habitat. The MoU will further enhance AKAH's work in implementing and driving urban and rural habitat planning, policy and design in Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Kenya to improve the ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- PATRIOT ACT -- On this segment from the latest episode of Patriot Act, Hasan examines the results of the recent 17th Lok Sabha election in which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP party maintained their control in a landslide victory throughout the country. After analyzing the state of Indian politics in the lead up ...
Canada -- Generations, a Multi-Generational Housing and Community Centre campus in Skyview Ranch, Calgary, is one of fifty Golden Jubilee projects launched globally in 2008 to improve the quality of life in our communities. Phase I of the project includes Independent Seniors Affordable Housing Rental Units that were introduced in November 2012. The first of three phases, the campus takes a ...
A third Classic winner for Haras de Bonneval sire. Leading French sire SIYOUNI took the honours in the Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly as his son SOTTSASS stormed past his rivals to score in fine style. Already sire of a Poule d'Essai des Pouliches and a Prix de Diane winner in Ervedya and Laurens, SIYOUNI now adds the French Derby ...
Inspired by the traditional rice pilau, this enticing and super-healthy gluten free Vegetarian Quinoa Pilau Recipe, aka "qui-lau" is bursting with flavour, and so simple to pull off. Infused with the ...
Thursday June 6th, 2019 from 6-8 @ HR MACMILLAN SPACE CENTRE (1100 Chestnut Street Vancouver, B.C. V6J 3J9). This event is FREE, but space is limited. You will be served on ...
[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- LIBERATIONIST.ORG -- GM's workplace dress code was 10-pages long, until GM's new head of HR shrank it to two words: "Dress appropriately." The beauty of a simple rule is that it defines the criteria and lets people use their best judgment. Here are 5 ways to enable your people by using rules appropriately. #2. Don't Punish 97% of Your Employees. Most organizations design rules with the wrongdoers in mind. Quoting former Chaparral Steel CEO, "they are managing for the 3%." #4. Trust People and They Will Trust You Back. Control is the opposite of trust. Netflix's travel policy treats people like adults: "Do what's best for Netflix." ...
