Los Angeles, California, USA, 19 November 2008 - Prince Hussain Aga Khan, accompanied by his wife, Princess Khaliya Aga Khan, Dr. Tom Kessinger, Deputy Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and Dr. Mahmoud Eboo, President of the Aga Khan Council for the USA, represented His Highness the Aga Khan at the Governors' Global Climate Summit, held at the Beverly ...
Ottawa, Canada, 18 November 2008 - His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and Founder and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) arrives in Ottawa today at the start of an 8-day visit to Canada to discuss development collaborations with the Government of Canada and Canadian institutions. The Aga Khan Development Network has ...
Ottawa, Canada, 18 November 2008 - His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and Founder and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) arrives in Ottawa today at the start of an 8-day visit to Canada on the occasion of his Golden Jubilee. ...
Sometimes we are associated with fast ladies and this is a case when I am very happy to be associated with a fast lady! ... I want to say that, as a traditional breeder, Zarkava is probably the greatest reward that any breeder could ever have. If you are in this industry and you like breeding and not only racing this ...
Yes [Zarkava] really is an exceptional filly in a very, very good year of race horses.... [H]er trainer, really had identified that quality very, very early on and that's why he took the decision to run her from a maiden and go straight into a group 1 race. Other readings related to this event Interviewer: Marcus Armytage [The Aga Khan] was ...
In a world that claims to be globalised, there are some who might regard cultural standardisation as natural, even desirable. For my part, I believe that marks of individual and group cultural identity generate an inner strength which is conducive to peaceful relations. I also believe in the power of plurality, without which there is no possibility of exchange. In my ...
35 broodmares including Gr 2 winner Four Sins are entered in the November Breeding Stock Sale. The families of champions such as Shergar, Alamshar, Darshaan, Kalanisi, Shahrastani and Top Ville, as well as Shawanda and Zarkava, will be on offer at the forthcoming Goffs Breeding Stock Sale. The Aga Khan Studs's rich consignment features some blue-blooded broodmares, many of which have ...
AK graduates of ARQANA include Gr winners Zaiyad and Tashelka. Seven former Aga Khan inmates will go under the hammer during ARQANA's horses in training sale at St Cloud on Monday 17 November and they feature some top class pedigrees and useful performances on the racetrack. ALBAHRI (Lot 22) combines both these qualities. The three-quarter brother to Arc hero Sakhee has ...
The Aga Khan Studs have set the fees for their three stallions for the 2009 breeding season. In Ireland at Gilltown Stud, DALAKHANI, sire of two Classic winners from his first crop, will be available at a fee of €50,000 in 2009. Champion Older Horse of 2005 AZAMOUR will stand at €15,000. In France at the Haras de Bonneval, proven Gr1 ...
News story -- Other speakers in the last seminar included Professor Rajeev Bhargava, Senior Fellow and Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; Louis Greenspan, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at McMaster University in Ontario and Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary, Director of AKU-ISMC.In his talk, Professor Nanji provided an example of a group of scholars in tenth century Basra who, ...
News story -- Exploring poets in the Muslim milieu, Raficq Abdulla looked at a variety of poetic expressions and juxtaposed the ethos of poetry against the rapid pace and alienations of modern life. In poetry's capacity to generate emotion, to have a surplus of meaning and to invoke an identifiable experience, he saw poetic expressions as close to the sacred in human ...
Nutrition Centre -- Have you noticed how your interests and priorities change as time goes on? It is the same with nutrition. Whether you're 25 or 85-years old, it is important to eat well, but your nutritional needs change according to your life-stage. Have you noticed how your interests and priorities change as time goes on? It is the same with ...
News story -- Drawing upon his book The Other in the Light of the One, Dr Shah-Kazemi presented a mystical viewpoint on the matter. With references to Sufi commentaries on the Quran, he spoke about the verses that can contribute to a positive evaluation of the other faith-communities and lead to a meaningful dialogue between believers of different faiths. He also explained ...
The congregational space incorporated within the Ismaili Centre belongs to the historic category of jamatkhana, an institutional category that also serves a number of sister Sunni and Shia communities, in their respective contexts, in many parts of the world. Here, the Jamatkhana will be reserved for traditions and practices specific to the Shia Ismaili tariqah of Islam. The Centre on the ...
St Leger winner Conduit strikes again in Breeders' Cup Turf and propels his sire to top of second season sires standings. Dalakhani continued his superb season when adding victory in America's most prestigious turf contest to the pair of Classic victories already won by his first crop of three-year-olds. The Arc hero of 2003 now counts six individual winners of nine ...
29 October 2008 (Astana, Kazakhstan): His Highness the Aga Khan is decorated as Honoured Educator of the Republic of Kazakhstan.29 October 2008 (Astana, Kazakhstan): Press conference following meetings with the President, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Education Minister.30 October 2008 (Tekeli, Kazakhstan): Visit to University of Central Asia's Kazakhstan Campus site.30 October 2008 (Tekeli, Kazakhstan): UCA Land title deed presentation ceremony.30 ...
Aswan/Cairo, Egypt, 27 October 2008 - The First Microfinance Foundation (FMF), a subsidiary of the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance (AKAM), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), have signed an agreement that will increase microfinance support to poor and low income families and small businesses in the Aswan Governorate. At present, the Aswan Governorate has one of the ...
On 13 September, Hurricane Ike surged through Houston with destructive force. The Ismaili Council and Focus Humanitarian Assistance established a Crisis Response Team to ensure the safety of the Jamat, while also assisting relief efforts in the wider Houston community. Young Ismailis from the Houston area help at a Hurricane Relief centre in Arcola, Texas. Naushad Kermally The 13th of September ...
Princesse Zahra Aga Khan's triple Group 1 winner bows out. Following yet another gallant second place in Saturday's Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket, connections announced that DARJINA will be retired to stud. The four-year-old was filling the runner-up position for a sixth consecutive occasion in as many outings at the highest level this season. Alain de Royer Dupré's charge began the ...
His Highness the Aga Khan has decided to retire Zarkava to stud, following her win in the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe last Sunday. After a week's reflection and discussion with both ZARKAVA's trainer, Alain de Royer Dupré and the Aga Khan's management team, His Highness has decided not to race ZARKAVA as a four-year-old. She will retire to stud ...
News story -- This talk dealt with phenomenology of visual perception, and the question concerning the visibility of space. In his presentation, Dr El-Bizri explored the fundamental aspects of the optical and geometrical research of the Arab polymath, Alhazen (al-Hasan Ibn al-Haytham; d. ca. 1041 CE). A particular emphasis was placed on the principal elements of Alhazen's revolutionising reform of the classical ...
News story -- Over the course of three days, scholars from AKTC, AKU-ISMC and the American University in Cairo shared with the alumni their perspectives on historic and modern Cairo. In addition, there were several opportunities for the alumni to experience the city itself. In his opening remarks welcoming the alumni and speakers, Mr Shiraz Kabani, Head of Operations, Finance and Development, ...
United Kingdom -- For one weekend in September, The Ismaili Centre opened its doors to the public. It featured in Open House London, an architectural exhibition aimed at opening eyes and minds to good design in the British capital. Upon entering The Ismaili Centre, the foyer invites visitors to leave the busyness of the city behind. Gary Otte For the seventh ...
Youmzain (Sinndar) second in the Arc. Shemima and Centennial (Dalakhani) second and third in the Gr2 Prix Chaudenay. YOUMZAIN finished second behing Zarkava in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and he is a son of the Aga Khan's Haras de Bonneval-based sire Sinndar. The irreproachable YOUMZAIN was competing in his twelfth successive Group 1 contest. He counts two victories at ...
The jewel of the AK breeding empire enters the history books. ZARKAVA thrilled her connections and the crowds of Longchamp with an electric burst of acceleration which saw her outclass her talented rivals in the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. She becomes the first filly since Urban Sea in 1993 on the roll of honour for France's greatest race, and ...
News story -- Dr Badakhchani's paper was on the "Notion of paradise in the Ismaili works of Nasir al-Din Tusi". Tusi was a prominent philosopher and astronomer (d. 672AH /1271 CE), to whom over 150 books and treatises on a variety of subjects have been attributed. During his association with the Ismailis (lasting approximately 30 years), he composed a number of books ...
"Convivencia" -- the Spanish word for living together harmoniously -- is not a simple concept. It is, of course, the term used to describe the co-existence of different faiths in medieval Spain. The code of "convivencia" was about tolerance and much more. In Toledo, Córdoba and Granada it implied mutual respect as well as an appreciation of science and scholarship, and ...
Kabul, Afghanistan, 8 October 2008 - The First MicroFinanceBank - Afghanistan (FMFB), an institution of the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance (AKAM), will introduce a line of loan products designed to address the housing needs of poor and low-income Afghans and improve living conditions in the country. The introduction follows on the back of a successful pilot and will be supported ...
My family has been breeding racehorses for five generations. Two generations in India and three in Europe, and I believe this moment is the apogee of that effort. This is one of the most important moments in my life. I'm not just a racehorse owner and breeder, I have many other responsibilities, but in the racing world, with all that my ...
News story -- The book on Sufi Hermeneutics by Dr Annabel Keeler, the third publication in the Institute's Qur'anic Studies series, examines the Sufi approach to Qur'anic interpretation as exemplified in a twelfth-century Persian tafsir, Rashid al-Din Maybudi's Kashf al-asrar (Unveiling of Mysteries) - arguably one of the most important Qur'anic commentaries in the Persian language. Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi's book on Imam ...
A leading representative in the Arc and yearlings selling well YOUMZAIN will attempt to follow in the footsteps of his Arc-winning sire when he lines up on Sunday in the world's richest turf contest. The son of Sinndar has already demonstrated his talent at this highest level, finishing second in the 2007 edition of the race, and lifting the Gr 1 ...
Shreyas beats her elders in Gowran Park Gr 3. SHREYAS's success in Saturday's Denny Cordell Lavarack & Lanwades Stud Filllies Stakes brings Dalakhani's total number of black-type winners from his first crop up to seven. The Arc winner's best produce include Classic pair Moonstone and Conduit. The sire also boasts the enviable strike-rate of 50% winners to runners in 2008. The ...
France -- The 2008 Euroventures Conference will take place in Paris between 4 - 5 October 2008. The two-day symposium will feature many successful business leaders from Europe and other parts of the world., and promises unique networking opportunities. Last year's Euroventures Conference brought together Ismaili entrepreneurs and professionals from across Europe for a weekend of learning and networking in Lisbon. ...
"If you try to put social development ahead of economic support, it doesn't work. You have to do both together. A community whose economics don't change is not one that can support community structures, education, healthcare, it doesn't have the wherewithal." I ask whether he thinks this long-term view is key to his success and he says that many projects can ...
Three hundred golf balls rained from the sky, marking the start of the PartnershipsInAction Annual Golf Tournament. The AKF-USA fundraising initiative was an opportunity for golfers to learn about international development while enjoying a day on the green. Since its inception in 2007, volunteers have raised $665 000 for the annual PartnershipsInAction Golf tournament. The sound of the approaching helicopter grew ...
United States -- After captivating the Jamat and, in a special way, bringing the history of the Ismaili Imams so close to the Jamat during their tour of the United States, the cast and crew of ALI TO KARIM: A Tribute to the Ismaili Imams share their parting reflections and memories of what the experience was like for them." ...
Azamour, Dalakhani and Sinndar all represented at Ireland's premier sale. Next week's Goffs Million sale features 22 yearlings from the first crop of AZAMOUR, a four-time Group 1 winner over a mile to a mile and a half. Some of the most interesting pedigrees include Lot 80, a half-brother to Irish 2000 Guineas fourth Maumee and a Listed winner, Lot 89, ...
United Kingdom -- London, UK, 18th June 2009 - The Aga Khan Health Board for the United Kingdom and TheIsmaili.org - the official website of the global Ismaili Muslim community - have today launched an online Nutrition Centre (www.TheIsmaili.org/nutrition). " Watch a video tour of TheIsmaili.org Nutrition Centre This groundbreaking initiative, emanating from research carried out in collaboration between the Aga ...
Dalakhani continues his exceptional run of form with a second Classic victory for his first crop. CONDUIT joins Irish Oaks heroine MOONSTONE as a Classic-winning progeny of DALAKHANI after his impressive success in Doncaster's St Leger on Saturday. The Ballymacoll Stud owned and bred colt put in a superb staying performance to secure victory in Britain's oldest Classic contest. CONDUIT eased ...
The Aga Khan's filly impresses when remaining unbeaten in Arc Trial. Onlookers at Longchamp were stunned into silence by the sheer brilliance of ZARKAVA's performance to win the Prix Vermeille. The winner of the Prix Marcel Boussac, Poule d'Essai des Pouliches and Prix de Diane was attempting the distance of a mile and a half for the first time in this ...
