This ... min lecture by Dr Stephen Burge explores aspects of the supernatural in Prophet Mohammed's life, using material found in the biographies of the Prophet and in the hadith Literature. Dr Burge argues that the presence of angels and the supernatural form an important spiritual element within the narratives of the events in the Prophet's life. He illustrates this using ...
The ANZ Ismaili Sports Tournament brought together athletes, spectators and volunteers from the Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea Jamats from 24 - 27 March, 2016. Athletes competed in 17 sports, ahead of the upcoming Jubilee Games in Dubai. ...
Group wins for Sea The Stars and Makfi. Sunday's meeting at Saint-Cloud was a successful one for the Aga Khan Studs as sires SEA THE STARS and MAKFI lifted the day's two Group contests, courtesy of CLOTH OF STARS and MAIMARA. A Group 1 runner-up as a juvenile, CLOTH OF STARS cemented his classic credentials with a smooth victory on his ...
Sea The Stars three-quarter brother is an exciting young sire. The first juveniles of the beautifully bred BORN TO SEA, himself a Stakes winner and Group 1 runner-up, are eagerly awaited on the track this season. Following an enthusiastic reception for his yearlings at public auction last year, the young sire will be represented by some exciting two-year-olds at forthcoming breeze-up ...
Class and stamina combine for Gold Cup glory. A year after the victory of Dolniya in the Gr. 1 Dubai Sheema Classic during the richest race meeting in the world, H.H. the Aga Khan's colours were successful once again thanks to the superb performance of VAZIRABAD in the Gold Cup. A Group 1 winner in France aged three when taking the ...
"...In the Ismaili tradition, al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān is the most famous author...He debated this Ḥanafī jurist about ijtihād and thought that he'd won, and then he heard afterwards that the man had written a fascicle still arguing his point against al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān. So then he thought: I really need to write a serious refutation to put an end to this..." -- Professor ...
Editor's note: We are indebted to the New York University Press for permitting us to reproduce from its website, , the complete and original interview on the Fatimid jurist al-Qāḍī al-Nu'mān' that was conducted by M. Lynx Qualey, an Egyptian based blogger of Arabic literature, with Professor Devin J. Stewart of Emory College in Atlanta, Georgia. al-Qāḍī al-Nu'mān wrote extensively on ...
American Pharoah among suitors for Aga Khan broodmares. 173 Aga Khan broodmares will be covered by 59 different stallions during the 2016 breeding season. This list features some of the top European and global sires, including the Aga Khan Studs' stallions Born To Sea and SEA THE STARS in Ireland, SIYOUNI, CHARM SPIRIT, Makfi, Dalakhani and Sinndar in France, who between ...
The NanoWisdoms Archive of Imamat Speeches, Interviews and Writings wishes all Navroz Mubarak. Today, the Spring Solstice, is Navroz, or "New Day," symbolising new beginnings. It is, therefore, also a time to reflect over what we wish to begin afresh. In the past four months, first at Harvard in November and then at Sharm el-Sheik in February, His Highness the Aga ...
By Abdulmalek Merchant Publisher-Editor, A greeting and prayer for my parents from an Ismaili student in Vancouver. On auspicious occasions such as Navroz, Imamat Day and Salgirah a team of volunteers sets out to deliver trays of delicious food around the Greater Vancouver area to the aged and the sick who cannot attend the jamati functions due to ill-health and ...
Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the opening of the new state-of-the art printing plant that will print newspapers and magazines of the Nation Media Group - a media house he founded almost six decades ago. ...
Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the opening of the new state-of-the art printing plant that will print newspapers and magazines of the Nation Media Group - a media house he founded almost six decades ago. ...
Equinox on a Spinning Earth. Image Credit: NASA, Meteosat, Robert Simmon. Please click to watch a 12 second time-lapse video (see explanation below). When does the line between day and night become vertical? In 2016, the spring equinox in the Northern hemisphere ( it is the start of autumn in the Southern hemisphere) comes on March 20 at 4:30 UTC (March ...
TKN -- Yasmin Dharani has been volunteering with the Aga Khan Academies in the area of communications for the past 18 months. The nature of her work evolves as additional needs are identified. Her role has expanded over time to encompass several areas, primarily related to increasing the visibility of the Academies as the agency grows and expands. Volunteer Name: Yasmin ...
Global -- Nairobi, 17 March 2016 -- Mawlana Hazar Imam commissioned a state-of-the-art printing press for the Nation Media Group today, marking an important new milestone for the East African media house that he founded more than half a century ago. He also reaffirmed its critical role in what he described as a "post-fact society." Looking back at the establishment of ...
His Highness the Aga Khan, Mawlana Hazar Imam signs the visitor's book upon his arrival in Nairobi, Kenya on March 16, 2016. Looking on are (l to r) Aga Khan Ismaili Council Vice-President Shamira Dostmohamed, AKDN Resident Representative Aziz Bhaloo, Aga Khan Ismaili Council President Nawaaz Gulam and Kenya's Chairman of the Defence and Foreign Relations Committee, Hon Ndung'u Gethenj. Photo ...
Nairobi, Kenya, 17 March 2016 - His Highness the Aga Khan presided over the opening of a new state-of-the art printing plant that will print newspapers and magazines of the Nation Media Group - a media house he founded almost six decades ago. ...
Portugal -- Lisbon, 17 March 2016 -- Prince Amyn was at the National Museum of Ancient Art yesterday, to formalise a donation by the Aga Khan Foundation towards the museum's acquisition of a national Portuguese cultural treasure. The contribution supports a campaign to acquire a painting by Domingos Sequeira, who is considered one of the best Portuguese artists of his time. ...
Machakos County, Nairobi, Kenya, 17 March 2016 - His Highness the Aga Khan today emphasized the importance of reliable and trustworthy media in a world filled with multiple sources of information. "In such a world, it is absolutely critical - more than ever - that the public should have somewhere to turn for reliable, balanced, objective and accurate information - as ...
[S]ome people say, is that we live in a "post-fact" society. Yes, a post-fact society. It's not just that everyone feels entitled to his or her own opinion -- that's a good thing. But the problem comes when people feel they are entitled to their own facts. What is true, too often, can then depend not on what actually happened, but ...
1. Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan meets a delegation during a visit to Tanzania sometime between 1966 and 1970 while serving UNHCR. Photo: Abdul M. Ismaily. Copyright. Editor’s Note: During his long tenure from the early 1960’s to 1976 as either the Deputy High Commissioner or the High Commissioner of the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (1933-2003), ...
News story -- The Central Asian Studies Unit (CASU) organised a book launch at the Ismaili Centre, Dushanbe, for two new publications. The first of these publications, Nasirian Ethics, represents the first Russian translation of the well-known work of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. It was translated from Persian into Russian by Professor Umeda Ghafforova of the Khujand State University in Tajikistan. The second ...
News story -- On 18 and 22 January, the Department of Graduate Studies welcomed back third-year students on the Graduate Programme in Islamic Studies and Humanities (GPISH), who presented their fieldtrip research papers. The topics of their research reflected their broad and diverse interests in the social sciences and humanities, and the presentations led to stimulating discussions with audiences composed of academic ...
Kenya -- 11 March 2016 -- Mawlana Hazar Imam is due to visit Kenya next week for the opening of a new press for the Nation Media Group. Hazar Imam's visit to the country also relates more generally to the expanding scope of the work of the Aga Khan Development Network in the region. Founded by Mawlana Hazar Imam in 1959, ...
Editor's note: On Sunday, March 6, 2016, Mrs. Nancy Reagan, who served at the White House as the First Lady during the term of her husband's Presidential reign from 1981 until 1989, died of congestive heart failure at the age of 94 at her home in Los Angeles. Newlyweds Ronald and Nancy Reagan, March 4, 1952. The Former First Lady, who ...
Building on its experience in other countries, in 2010 the Aga Khan Foundation and Aga Khan Rural Support Programme began forming self-help and savings groups in rural Bihar to help marginalised women. This is the story of one of those women. ...
Global -- Watch highlights of the Golden Jubilee Games and relive the exciting moments from 2008 in Nairobi, Kenya. ...
In February 2015, divers off the coast of Caesarea spotted by chance a group of gold coins lying on the seabed. They immediately alerted marine archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), who conducted a salvage excavation at the site and recovered more than 2,580 Fatimid coins of pure (24 karat) gold weighing a total of 7.5 kg. Please click on ...
Makfi filly now favourite for the New Zealand Oaks. MAKFI's exciting daughter SOFIA ROSA stamped her authority over the opposition in the Gr. 3 Lowland Stakes at Hastings on 2nd March. In a dominant display under jockey Danielle Johnson, the talented filly produced a burst of speed at the three furlong pole and then cruised home four and a quarter lengths ...
Khorog, Tajikistan and Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic, March 2016 - UCA is advancing construction of its three residential campuses at high altitude sites in Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic; Khorog, Tajikistan; and Tekeli, Kazakhstan. UCA will inaugurate its first fully-residential campus in Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic in September 2016, welcoming the first cohort of undergraduates to world class facilities, academic buildings and student and faculty ...
Editor's note: Shortly after the 9/11 attacks in the USA in 2001 which killed almost 3000 people in an instant, numerous articles began to appear in the media around the world that drew parallels between the actions of Al-Qaeda and the warfare activity of the Ismailis during the 12th and 13th centuries that over time grew into fantastic legendary tales. In ...
His Highness the Aga Khan delivered the Keynote Address at the "Africa 2016: Business for Africa, Egypt and the World" conference in Egypt in February 2016. This film provides some highlights from the conference. ...
His Highness the Aga Khan delivered the Keynote Address at the "Africa 2016: Business for Africa, Egypt and the World" conference in Egypt in February 2016. This film provides some highlights from the conference. ...
Aga Khan graduate lifts Triumph Hurdle trial. The versatility of the Aga Khan Studs was displayed once again at the weekend as Zubayr and Khezerabad finished first and third respectively in the Gr. 2 Adonis Juvenile Hurdle at Kempton, and Dibayani took second place in the Gr. 1 Chipping Norton Stakes in Australia. Zubayr stormed into the reckoning for the Triumph ...
Please click on the following image to zoom on an excellent PDF version of the photo Please click on image to view PDF file. Copyright Simerg/Abdul M. Ismaily Family Collection. Simerg was thrilled and privileged to recently publish on its sister photoblog never-before-seen photos of Mawlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan, which were captured by Abdul M. Ismaily (1926-1981) ...
A 45th Stakes win for his sire Dalakhani. Aga Khan Studs sire DALAKHANI took his global Stakes tally to 45 at the weekend as his son ARAB DAWN won the Listed Parramatta Cup at Rosehill. The five-year-old gelding was having just his second run in Australia for new owners Godolphin and under a patient ride from Christian Reith he ran out ...
News story -- A new purpose-built halls of residence developed by the AKDN is now operational. Located within the King's Cross Central development in Central London, the halls of residence provides 198 state-of-the-art bedrooms, which are now being occupied by students from the IIS and AKU-ISMC, as well as students from third-party institutions. Designed by award-winning London-based Stanton Williams Architects, the design ...
Keynote Address by His Highness the Aga Khan at the "Africa 2016: Business for Africa, Egypt and the World" in Sharm el Sheikh on 21 February 2016 ...
Please click on photo for enlargement Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (C) takes a memorial photo with other heads of state and government and the participating delegations during the Africa 2016 Business for Africa, Egypt and the World Forum in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, February 20, 2016. His Highness the Aga Khan is pictured second from ...
