SPRING HITHER By Navyn Naran do i hear the trickle of spring? do i see this first dawn welcoming the first warmth? the peering of the shoot, and tenacity of the hidden root, a glimpse of the sniffing, soft nose of the cotton-tailed rabbit.. delightful! Nature is all-knowing how did the world turn one day from winter to spring? how did ...
"I do not think it is necessary to spend time outlining the challenge that the process of globalisation represents vis-a-vis the cultural fabric of our world. But it is not the content of the new media, or even its domination by media giants, that is the real threat. The problem is that large segments of all societies -- in the developing ...
Compiled and prepared by Abdulmalik J. Merchant Publisher-Editor, Simerg.com As Canada pays its respect to the volunteers by marking the week of April 6, 2014, as Volunteer Week, we bring you some very rare historical quotations on service and voluntary work which appeared in a special Ismaili Volunteers, Scouts and Guides Souvenir published in 1954 to jointly commemorate the 48th Ismaili ...
News story -- The Qur'anic Studies Unit at the IIS inaugurated its Book Review Lecture Series with a lecture by Professor Aziz al-Azmeh on 3 February 2014. The lecture was based on Professor Al-Azmeh's latest book, The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: Allah and His People (Cambridge, 2014). He presented the book as an answer to the myriad questions about the ...
Global -- The Rt Hon Edward Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Andrew Austin, CEO of IGas Plc, and Law Professor Alan Riley of City University, London share a panel discussion on the future of shale gas at the Ismaili Centre, London. ...
Bism'Allah Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Islamic Calligraphy Amaana.org THE ISMAILI SOCIETY ISMAILI TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS SERIES, NO. 4 TABLE OF THE CONTENTS OF THE TEXT 1. The manifestation of the Imam and his Hujjat......1v.-2v. 2. The necessity of the propaganda (da'wat) in the time when the Imam is hidden ..... 2v.-3 3. The fourfold knowledge about the Imam .... ...
Mowlana Hazar Imam Golden Jubilee 2007 Amaana.org Nasir Khusraw is acknowledged as one of the foremost poets of the Persian language. Born in the Balkh district of Central Asia in 394/1004, Nasir was inspired from an early age by a tremendous thirst for knowledge. His intellectual abilities brought him much fame, a promising career in government service, and a life of ...
We wish you a lifetime of "enlightened self-fulfillment" Malik Talib The President of His Highness the Aga Khan Ismaili Council for Canada, Malik Talib, issued the following message through the community's weekly newsletter "Al-Akhbar" as the country marks the National Volunteer Week from April 6-12: "On behalf of the Canadian institutions and the entire Jamat, I wish to express our deepest ...
The Aga Khan Studs regret to inform that Azamour died this morning. The Aga Khan Studs regret to inform the bloodstock community that the stallion, AZAMOUR has had to be put after sustaining a serious injury in his box this morning. Despite the best efforts of both vets and attending staff, the four time Group 1 winner had to be euthanised ...
"As regards education, for example, remember the 1970s. At that time, certain governments, in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, tried to create an artificial national unity by encouraging the teaching of languages that no one outside the country could speak. This linguistic nationalism had regrettable consequences at international level. For example, a degree in medicine from Pakistan in Urdu was ...
ACTING IN THE PATH OF GOD Roshan Thomas was among those who were killed by terrorists in an incident in Kabul while she was celebrating the commencement of the Persian New Year, Navruz. She was buried earlier this week in Vancouver, where almost 2000 people from all walks of life attended her funeral at the North Vancouver Ismaili Jamatkhana. By Jalal ...
Nutrition Centre -- You may have memories of your grandma telling you to eat "saath (seven) badaam a day." Well, as explained in this latest Nutrition Centre A to Z article, research suggests that she was giving you good advice! Badaam (Almonds). Mivr / Dollar Photo Club Starting Navroz 2014, The Ismaili Nutrition Centre launched a series of articles on simple ...
Sulfyna Murji, one of three runners who will wear the AKF Run Team logo in the 2014 Boston Marathon, says she's thrilled and a little daunted by the challenge. "I'm not your typical marathoner," Sulfyna admits. A mother of two young boys and an education professional, she has always had the iconic Boston marathon on her bucket list. Running in it to ...
- Dr. Diana Steigerwald California State University (Long Beach) "Whatever may be the philosophical doctrine to which we adhere, we observe, as soon as we speculate on the origin and the cause, the anteriority and the presence of the Feminine." - Excerpt from the Fusûs al-hikam of Ibn al-'Arabî The 13th century, even though politically overshadowed by the invasion of the ...
Richard Prevost is one of three runners who will wear the AKF Run Team logo in the 2014 Boston Marathon. Richard lived in Boston for years, studied at MIT, and is now a financial analyst in Washington, DC. He has run several marathons before -- and was about to end his marathon career until the opportunity to join the AKF Run Team ...
-- Diana Steigerwald California State University (Long Beach) 'I believe in one God, and Muhammad, an Apostle of God' is the simple and invariable profession of Islām. The intellectual image of the Deity has never been degraded by any visible idol; the honor of the Prophet has never transgressed the measure of human virtues; and his living precepts have restrained the ...
"Over this past half century, the pace of change on our planet has been bewildering. And that pace is accelerating. I was struck last month by the fact that the leadership of France, the U.K. and Germany had changed significantly in just a few months and similar changes are coming in the United States. "As the pace of history accelerates, developments ...
Note: Please refresh page if your browser displays overlapping photos/text. A collage of photos from Prince Hussain Aga Khan’s “Animal Voyage” with an excerpt from a review by John MacDonald, an Ottawa based freelance photographer. Image: Designed by Simerg. “Animal Voyage” by Prince Hussain Aga Khan, originally available as a paperback, has been re-introduced as a hardback edition. Both Simergphotos.com ...
Speech by His Highness The Aga Khan New Delhi, India, March 26, 1980 ALL INDIA WOMEN'S CONFERENCE As one of a few rather lonely males in such a distinguished, elegant and talented gathering of beautiful women, I find myself for once, and my family would readily confirm the rarity of the event, almost at a loss at what to say. I ...
Zarsanga is a famous Pashto singer widely known as The Queen Of Pashtun Folklore. She was born in 1946 at Zafar Mamakhel, a small village of Lakki Marwat. She belongs to a nomadic tribe called Kutanree (Kutan) of African origin. They travel between Pashtun area from Punjab and Sindh. They don't settle permanently in one place. Their main profession is singing. ...
Zarsanga is a famous Pashto singer widely known as The Queen Of Pashtun Folklore. She was born in 1946 at Zafar Mamakhel, a small village of Lakki Marwat. She belongs to a nomadic tribe called Kutanree (Kutan) of African origin. They travel between Pashtun area from Punjab and Sindh. They don't settle permanently in one place. Their main profession is singing. ...
Zarsanga is a famous Pashto singer widely known as The Queen Of Pashtun Folklore. She was born in 1946 at Zafar Mamakhel, a small village of Lakki Marwat. She belongs to a nomadic tribe called Kutanree (Kutan) of African origin. They travel between Pashtun area from Punjab and Sindh. They don't settle permanently in one place. Their main profession is singing. ...
Zarsanga is a famous Pashto singer widely known as The Queen Of Pashtun Folklore. She was born in 1946 at Zafar Mamakhel, a small village of Lakki Marwat. She belongs to a nomadic tribe called Kutanree (Kutan) of African origin. They travel between Pashtun area from Punjab and Sindh. They don't settle permanently in one place. Their main profession is singing. ...
Akbar Khamisu Khan, 1976, born in Hyderabad, Pakistan, he is a son of great alghoza player Khamiso Khan. Algoze (Punjabi: ਅਲਗੋਜ਼ੇ) is a pair of Punjabi woodwind instruments adopted by Sindhi, Rajasthani and Baloch folk musicians, also called Jorhi, Do Nally, Satara or Ngoze. It resembles a pair of wooden flutes. The musician plays it by using three fingers on each side. Sound ...
Akbar Khamisu Khan, 1976, born in Hyderabad, Pakistan, he is a son of great alghoza player Khamiso Khan. Algoze (Punjabi: ਅਲਗੋਜ਼ੇ) is a pair of Punjabi woodwind instruments adopted by Sindhi, Rajasthani and Baloch folk musicians, also called Jorhi, Do Nally, Satara or Ngoze. It resembles a pair of wooden flutes. The musician plays it by using three fingers on each side. Sound ...
Akbar Khamisu Khan, 1976, born in Hyderabad, Pakistan, he is a son of great alghoza player Khamiso Khan. Algoze (Punjabi: ਅਲਗੋਜ਼ੇ) is a pair of Punjabi woodwind instruments adopted by Sindhi, Rajasthani and Baloch folk musicians, also called Jorhi, Do Nally, Satara or Ngoze. It resembles a pair of wooden flutes. The musician plays it by using three fingers on each side. Sound ...
PHOTOS AND TEXT BY FNDA ARCHITECTURE INC. Special to Simergphotos and Simerg Note: Please refresh page if your browser displays overlapping photos/text. Ismaili Centre, Dushanbe – Exterior shot of the courtyard at night. Photo: FNDA Architecture Inc. Copyright. THE FOUNDATION CEREMONY August 30, 2003 “Today’s ceremony represents a milestone in the history of the Ismaili Muslim Community’s presence in Central ...
I think that monotheistic religions, having a common reference to a single God, should and must dialogue. The three religions which Abraham inspired have many more common facets than those which divide them. Religion must be the means by which to affirm the ethical significance of existence, regardless of one's profession of faith. - Imām Shāh Karīm al-Ḥusaynī Āgā Khān IV, ...
Popular Bonneval sire represented by eight breeze-ups. Eight progeny of young sire SIYOUNI are certain to attract a good deal of interest at Arqana's forthcoming breeze-up sale on 9th and 10th May. The precocious SIYOUNI, hero of the Gr 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère during his own racing career which was launched with a debut win in the month of May, has ...
Mesmerizing Fargana Qasimova performing Mugam Rast accompanied with virtuoso instrumentalists from Azerbaijan. Babel Med, Marseille, 2014 ...
Paris, 26 March 2014 -- An exhibition entitled "5 Projets pour un monde responsable" ("Five Projects for a Sustainable World") was inaugurated today. The Exhibition, which focuses on the 2013 cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, will be on display at the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, in the Palais de Chaillot (Trocadéro), Paris, from 26 March until ...
"[I]t should be said in all candour that the recent history of higher education in numerous less developed countries has been discouraging. Many development policy makers in the 1960's and 1970's simply did not see higher education as a priority concern -- instead they incorrectly calculated that they could not justify the cost of higher education from the foreseeable productivity of ...
The Energy of Roshan and Zeenab The deaths of Roshan and Zeenab in Kabul at the hand of terrorists on the eve of Navroz have touched the hearts of thousands in Afghanistan, Canada and all around the world. By Navyn Naran how were you born? who is your mother? whose child are you? who bears a child? a woman. we, are ...
"[C]ultures are now mixing physically to an extent that would once have seemed impossible. Economic globalisation contributes to the trend. Some 45 million young people enter the job market in the developing world each year -- but there are not enough jobs at home for many of them. Immigrants now account for two thirds of the population growth in the 30 ...
Amira Valliani is one of three runners who will wear the AKF Run Team logo in the 2014 Boston Marathon. Three years ago she could barely run a mile. She says: "Running has taught me that with the combination of discipline, dreams, and shoes, I can do anything." Running the Boston Marathon to raise funds for the Aga Khan Foundation is special ...
As you can read in the About section, I started the Ismaili Web in November 1993 and established the domain Amaana.org in March 1994. Since then I have been writing about the work of Mowlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan and twenty years later, here is a collage of all the articles. What is more amazing is that ...
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 ...
Nutrition Centre -- The Ismaili Nutrition Centre has launched a new series of articles on simple ideas for popular foods. This A to Z of different fruits, vegetables and everyday ingredients builds greater awareness of basic nutrition and encourages you to try healthy and easy ideas for preparing a range of tasty dishes. This week's entry is about amla, a tangy ...
