As we look to the future, let me mention four principle areas of concern: the Islamic environment of our work, its relevant constituencies, the shifting social and economic scene, and the impact of new technologies.... Why should we emphasise an Islamic approach to architecture? Our Master Jury, in responding to this question, has described how global forces now threaten the values ...
Global -- The 2010 Yawm-e Ali Lecture at the Ismaili Centre, London was delivered on 14 July by Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi, Reasearch Fellow at The Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. In his lecture titled Imam Ali and the Power of Compassion, Dr Shah-Kazemi explored the role played by Rahma - divine compassion - in the teachings of Hazrat Ali. ...
Global -- Doha, Qatar, 22 November 2010 -Mawlana Hazar Imam, accompanied by Prince Hussain, arrived in Doha today, where the Award Ceremony for the 11th cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture will take place later this week. Hazar Imam and Prince Hussain were received by Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kuwari, Qatar's Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage, and ...
Draft includes the full-sister of Alpine Rose and half-sisters of Darjina, Montmartre, Varenar, etc. The Aga Khan Studs consignment for Arqana's December breeding stock sale is exceptionally strong in both quantity and quality, with 41 top-class fillies and mares entered at Deauville from 4th to 7th December. A number of the operation's leading families, such as those of Shergar, Azamour and ...
Compiled by Simerg BACKGROUND A report announcing the Aga Khan's establishment of an Award for Islamic architecture. Click image for enlargement. Credit: Ilm Special Supplement (1976), Mawlana Hazar Imam's and Begum Salimah's visit to Pakistan in February/March 1976. The creation of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture was first announced by His Highness the Aga Khan, the 49th and current Ismaili ...
By Ali M. Rajput I am pleased to share with readers of Simerg an account of my memorable trip to the Ismaili Castle of Alamut, which became the capital of Ismaili power for 171 years, following the Nizari-Musteali Ismaili split upon the death of the Fatimid Imam, al-Mustansir. The trip took place during the summer of 2007, when I spent a ...
United States -- Last week, Prince Hussain attended the Governors' Global Climate Summit 3 in the United States on behalf of the Aga Khan Development Network, at Mawlana Hazar Imam's request. Co-hosted by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Governors of Washington, Oregon, Wisconsin and Michigan, the conference counted the AKDN among its major sponsors for the third consecutive year. Dr ...
By Abdulmalik Merchant Editor, Simerg.com The autobiography of the 48th Ismaili Imam, Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III, was first published in London in 1954 under the title The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time. While the English versions of the British and American editions were circulated widely in the English-speaking world, a remarkable fact is that the ...
France -- The Government of France conferred honours on Mawlana Hazar Imam and Prince Amyn for their contributions to culture, both personally and through the activities of the Aga Khan Development Network. The French Minister for Culture and Communication, Frédéric Mitterrand, paid tribute to Hazar Imam and his brother at a ceremony held in Paris last week. Speaking on behalf of ...
Global -- Mawlana Hazar Imam received His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales at the Ismaili Centre, London on 18 November. The Prince's visit commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Centre. ...
Davis, California, USA, 17 November 2010 - The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) has joined regional, state and provincial leaders and representatives of non-governmental organizations in a new sub-national effort to break the current climate negotiation impasse. Prince Hussain Aga Khan, son of His Highness the Aga Khan, signed the Charter for Regions of Climate Action (R20 Charter) yesterday, on behalf ...
Global -- The Aga Khan Award for Architecture will be featured in a three-part documentary series titled Architects on the Frontline, to be broadcast at various times on BBC World television starting on 20 November. The final part of the BBC documentary will feature the 2010 ceremony, which will take place in Doha, Qatar later this month. The Aga Khan Award ...
By Jehangir A. Merchant "Upon them will be green garments of fine silk and heavy brocade, and they will be adorned with bracelets of silver; and their Lord will give to them to drink of a Wine, Pure and Holy." (Holy Qur'an, 76:21) "O brothers! By the remembrance of the Shah's name (in contemplative prayers), the Lord will extend to you ...
Johnny Murtagh will be retained to ride all their Irish-trained horses in 2011. The Aga Khan Studs are pleased to announce that Johnny Murtagh will be retained to ride all their Irish-trained horses in 2011. This will include both the horses-in-training with John Oxx (90 horses) and with Michael Halford (30 horses). Johnny Murtagh was stable jockey to John Oxx from ...
Healthy Hints The red peppers and tomatoes provide anti-oxidant nutrients lycopene and beta carotene. Interestingly, when you process or cook these vegetables, the lycopene becomes more "bio-available" to the body, which means your body can make better use of it. Although each serving has almost 8 grams of fat, note that most of this fat is the healthy mono-unsaturated type. Serve ...
Pakistan -- Despite the magnitude of the disastrous flooding in Pakistan and the impact on its people, many in the international community remain unaware, and the attention garnered early on has waned. Through individual and organised institutional efforts, many Ismailis, together with others in Pakistan and around the world, have sought to raise awareness and funds to support flood relief efforts.According ...
United Kingdom -- The Institute of Ismaili Studies will hold a live webcast for individuals interested in its Graduate Programme in Islamic Studies and Humanities (GPISH) on Saturday, 20 November. Dr Fayyaz Vellani, Head of the Department of Graduate Studies, and Dr Laila Halani, GPISH Course Director, will deliver a presentation about the programme for interested candidates live at 2:00 PM ...
First two mares sold in foal to Champion racehorse and Gilltown freshman sire average almost $1 million. Proof that the attraction of SEA THE STARS extends across the Atlantic has been provided by the first two broodmares sold in foal to the champion racehorse. The six-time Gr 1 winner is the top first-season covering sire in America as Love to Dance ...
By Ali Mohammad Rajput Special to Simerg "My child, you are going to UK, very different to your country of origin, always remember my words of advice and never forget as it is for your own good. Pick up their good principles and make them your own, and leave their vices and bad habits to them alone." Dr. Rajput at Yakimour, ...
Maputo, Mozambique, 10 November 2010 - The Federative Republic of Brazil and the Ismaili Imamat - the office of the Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims today signed a Protocol of Intentions to support development activities as part of their joint efforts to support the fight against poverty, during the official two-day visit of President of Brazil Lula da Silva to ...
News story -- Referring to the 12th century CE, Professor Schmidtke argued that, as a result of the unification of the Caspian Zaydiyya and the Zaydis in Yemen during the imamate of Abu Talib al-akhir(d. 1126 CE), a massive transfer of knowledge from Iran to Yemen began. This gradually increased throughout the 12th century CE, until the death of their Imam al-Mansur ...
The video is a 40 minute lecture by Professor Paul Walker that took place at The Institute of Ismaili Studies on 21 September 2010.Lecture AbstractThe Fatimids were famous for the remarkable variety of celebrations of feasts and festivals. In this talk, Paul Walker, drawing upon a range of historians - many of whom provided eye witnesses accounts - describes several celebrations such ...
By Ghulam Abbas Hunzai The Holy Qur'an's encouragement to study nature and the physical world around us gave the original impetus to scientific enquiry among Muslims. Exchanges of knowledge between institutions and nations and the widening of man's intellectual horizons are essentially Islamic concepts. The faith urges freedom of intellectual enquiry and this freedom does not mean that knowledge will lose ...
His Highness the Aga Khan delivered a major speech on Pluralism at the 10th annual LaFontaine-Baldwin Symposium held in Toronto on Friday, October 15, 2010. In the snapshots shown above, he is seen delivering his address to a packed audience. When the lecture concluded the Ismaili Imam was given a standing ovation, which he is seen acknowledging in a gesture of ...
Istanbul, Turkey, 5 November 2010 - Following seven different exhibitions in Europe that have attracted over half a million visitors, a new selection of masterpieces from the Aga Khan Museum will be on show at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum in Istanbul, from 5 November 2010 to 27 February 2011. The exhibition, which is sponsored by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture ...
Istanbul, Turkey, 05 November 2010 - Following seven different exhibitions in Europe that have attracted over half a million visitors, a new selection of masterpieces from the Aga Khan Museum will be on show at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum in Istanbul, from 5 November 2010 to 27 February 2011. ...
I am very grateful to the Sakip Sabanci Museum, and to the Chairman of its Board, Ms Güler Sabanci, for hosting this presentation of treasures of the future Aga Khan Museum's collections ... The choice was made to focus on the arts of the book and calligraphy, themes which have been central to Islamic culture for close to fifteen hundred years. ...
Publication: The Case of the Animals versus Man Before the King of the Jinn: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistle 22Editors and Translators:Professor Lenn Goodman and Dr Richard McGregor This video will take a few seconds to load. Get Flash to see this video.Questions addressed in the interview:1. What drew you to devote 7 years to translating The Case ...
This thoughtful study of the late Aga Khan, 48th Imam of Shia Imami Ismailis, was done in clay by his wife, the Begum Aga Khan, Om Habiba. Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS Editor's note: The following piece is an adaptation from Bashir Ladha's excellent tribute to the 48th Ismaili Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan III, which appeared in Ilm, Volume 3, ...
The sale where future French champion hurdler Mandali was sold, offers plenty of potential. The Aga Khan consignment for Arqana's Autumn sale at Saint Cloud on 15th November contains a wide range of well-bred proven performers. Mandali, who went on to lift the Grade 1 Grande Course de Haies d'Auteuil (French Champion Hurdle) last June, was bought by trainer Jean-Paul Gallorini ...
News story -- At the three-day workshop, scholars presented papers on various aspects of theories and methods in Qur'anic tafsir, covering areas such as esoteric and exoteric exegesis, hadiths in tafsir and early exegesis. Though great strides have been made in the secondary literature on the genre of Qur'anic commentary, a gap exists in descriptions of overall theories and methods used by ...
Editor's Note: Bashir Ladha was in Toronto at the beginning of October (2010) for a family wedding. On October 10, he visited Wynford Drive to see how the construction work of the Ismaili Centre, the Aga Khan Museum and the Park was coming along. He writes: "It was a thrilling moment and I was full of excitement when I saw the ...
News story -- Held from 3-6 December, 2008, the conference was organised under the patronage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Sicilian Region, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, and Fondazione Universitaria Italo-Libica (Italian-Libyan University Foundation). Dr Daftary delivered introductory remarks in the opening session and presided over the first session. During the next session, Dr Shainool Jiwa delivered a paper ...
Nazrana, Tere Liye Na jaa, kahin ab, na jaa Dil ke siva Tasvir teri chupake, Rakhdoon, Jahan koi na dekhe Falak se todkar dekho, Sitare log laye hein Magar mei woh nahi laya, Jo sare log laye hein Koi Nazrana, leker aaya hoon, Main deewana tere liye. Koi Nazrana, leker aaya hoon, Main deewana tere liye. Dekho mere chere par Dil ...
"I am deeply moved and extremely grateful that the Aga Khan has chosen to make this wonderful gift to Brown University in my honor. It is particularly meaningful to me because the Aga Khan is internationally recognized as a major activist for civilized humanity and in promoting the universal values that unite and transcend us all." Vartan Gregorian, now President of ...
Tare Mare Kevi-Re Sagai ENGLISH TRANSLATION You are the Sun, I am a ray, You are the Poet, I am the poetry, You are the Guide, I am the guided, You are the Ocean and I am a river. What is our relationship? From thee unfathomable ocean, (I) sometimes exist in the clouds, sometimes in the lake, sometimes streaming by the ...
People say expressions is the easiest thing to do, They say just express yourself however you want to, But they don't think that may be we don't know how to. If they leave us to ponder We just get left to wonder, How does it come to them? Why can't we be like them? But then it hits, The barriers are ...
Sinndar's Valasyra takes Gr 3 Prix de Flore as Gr 1 winner Rosanara is retired. The Aga Khan's colour-bearers are enjoying a fine streak of form at the present moment as the stable heads both owners' and breeders' standings in France. Their wellbeing has been demonstrated recently by four successes in three days, of which two came at Pattern level. Ashiyla ...
Bamako, Mali - On 29 October 2010, President Amadou Toumani Touré officially opened the new Centre for Earthen Architecture in Mopti, Mali. The centre, located in the city's Komoguel district, includes an exhibition space designed to present Mali's rich heritage of earthen architecture to the public, a community centre with public toilets and showers, a cafeteria and a park. This project ...
To the Rope of Imamat, we must remember to hold strong, With this Rope as our guide, we will never go wrong. From our spiritual responsibilities, we must never go astray, The balance between Din and Duniya we should uphold everyday. We love our Hazar Imam and in our hearts he is always near, How fortunate we are to be witness ...
