Champion Stakes and Breeders' Cup Turf winner Kalanisi scored another victory with his first crop of 2 year olds when European Dream ran third time lucky to break his maiden at Newcastle on Friday. John Cena is already a dual winner for his sire in Italy, while his daughters Faster Sara and Casata have both won in Scandinavia, and there is ...
A half sister to Grand Lodge, the ever consistent Daylami filly La Persiana (La Papagena by Habitat) won the Listed Upavon Fillies Stakes at Salisbury yesterday. La Persiana has never been out of the first 3 in Group or Listed company, and challenged 2 furlongs out to lead home Bon Nuit and Something Exciting over the 10 furlong trip. Congratulations to ...
Rated 126, Azamour is currently the highest rated horse in Europe and lies 2nd behind Ghostzapper (128) in the World Rankings to 31st July. Azamour shares his 126 rating with Motivator and Shamardal. Given that Ghostzapper and Shamardal have both been retired from racing, the likely clash of Motivator and Azamour in the Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown will be one ...
News story -- Download the PDF version of the syllabus of the Summer Programme on Islam (47KB) Gallery of images of the Lecturers and Presenters The seminars, presented and facilitated by lecturers from the Universities of Harvard, Brandeis, Carleton and Victoria along with faculty members from The Institute of Ismaili Studies and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations of the ...
This year's Deauville August Yearling catalogue offers plenty of opportunities to acquire quality stock by the Aga Khan stallions, a total of 12 colts and 13 fillies to be precise. There are 3 DAYLAMI colts on offer, including a half brother to the Gr3 winner Perfect Hedge (216) and a colt out of stakes winner Magic Play (375). LINAMIX is well ...
Mopti, Mali, 1 August 2005 - During his recent visit to Mali, the Aga Khan reviewed restoration efforts undertaken on Mopti's Grand Mosque by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC). The mosque, an earthen structure built in the traditional Sudanese style between 1936 and 1943 on the site of an earlier mosque dating from 1908, was at serious risk of ...
Bamako, Mali, 1 August 2005 - His Excellency Moctar Ouane, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Mali and the Director of the Department of Diplomatic Affairs of the Ismaili Imamat, Dr. Shafik Sachedina, today signed an agreement of cooperation between the Republic of Mali, the Ismaili Imamat and the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). The agreement ...
Mopti, Mali, 1 August 2005 - The restoration of the Mopti Mosque, completed in 2006, has provided valuable experience in the technical, organisational and community-related aspects of preserving earthen structures in the country. ...
I would like to emphasise that economic initiatives are only one part of the AKDN initiatives in Mali. We firmly believe that our social and cultural activities are just as important, and intend to have them expand substantially in the future. His Excellency Moctar Ouane, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation of the Republic of Mali and the Director of ...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 30 July 2005 - President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso and His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) of the Ismaili Muslims and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), today launched the First Microfinance Agency (Premiere Agence de Microfinance (PAMF) in Ouagadougou. In the coming weeks, PAMF will commence operations in the Banfora region in ...
31 July 2005 (Koulouba, Mali): Dinner hosted by the President of Mali.1 August 2005 (Mopti, Mali): Visit to Grand Mosque. SOURCESismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...
[Translation] As you know I am coming from Burkina and this trip is a trip so see our activities in West Africa, to assess the situation at a time when Africa is in the process of taking very very important global dimensions, so I have come to look and listen.... the Aga Khan Network in Mali is involved in culture, in ...
We hope to bring to areas that are amongst the poorest and least served, our experience of strengthening communities living in other high mountain regions with similar economic and ecological environments. As in those other regions, we see this as a long-term initiative whose success will be determined by the commitment of the beneficiary population and the continued collaboration of the ...
[Translation] [A]ny community which feels isolated, which feels forgotten, which has lost hope, is a community that will search by any mean to reposition itself. And we have seen this in the North of Pakistan, we have seen it in the east of Tajikistan, We have seen it in Afghanistan. And these situations can be identified and that is what is ...
Proclamation's emphatic win in yesterday's Sussex Stakes proved yet again the merits of the Aga Khan's meticulously planned breeding programme. The King's Best colt is out of an unraced Aga Khan bred mare, Shamarra (Zayyani), who hails from the family of Champion miler Sendawar. Congratulations to Proclamation's trainer Jeremy Noseda, owner Princess Haya of Jordan, and to his breeder, Cahal Ryan ...
The Aga Khan bred Ansar once again brought home Ireland's summer steeplechase showpiece, the Galway Plate, in a decisive 7 length defeat of his rivals at the Festival meeting yesterday. The nine year old son of Kahyasi, from the family of Azamour, produced a strong finishing uphill gallop to win for a seventh time at the Galway Festival. Ansar's dam, Anaza ...
Leading sire in France by prize money won, Linamix has also proven himself a top class broodmare sire. Bred by Lagardere Elevage, the dual Group 1 winner Valixir was the result of a Trempolino covering of the Linamix mare Vadlamixa. He won his prep race for Deauville's Prix Jacques le Marois when cantering out the easy winner of the Group 3 ...
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when breaking the track record to win the Gr. 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes. Azamour yet again proved his talent and versatility to beat a high class field of Group 1 winners in the King George. Already a Group 1 winner over a mile and a mile and a quarter, he finished superbly over his first mile ...
Following Shawanda's success in the Irish Oaks last Sunday, Sinndar has moved up to 3rd place in the Leading Second Crop Sires in Europe list, ranked by prize money won. The only 2 stallions ahead of him are Montjeu and Giant's Causeway, and Sinndar has scored an impressive 25 wins from 51 runners. Sendawar is the Leading Second Crop Sire in ...
The progeny of Sinndar excelled themselves on Oaks weekend at the Curragh, scoring 2 Group successes in 2 days with Moonlight Dance (ex Style of Life) and Shawanda (ex Shamawna). SHAWANDA won the Irish Oaks, her first Group 1 outing, in remarkable style. Sitting comfortably in mid-division until the final straight, she accelerated easily and cruised down the straight to outclass ...
JOHN CENA became the second of Kalanisi's first crop to win when the 2 year old colt out of Dekobra won the Premio Colico Maiden at San Siro last week over 1500m. Dekobra is an 8 year old Night Shift mare under Italian ownership and trained by Bruno Grizzetti just outside Milan. Updated 19/07/2005. ...
Our experience in the northern areas of Pakistan shows that the logistical efficiencies gained from the use of helicopters have had a positive impact on the beneficiaries - the poor in remote, high mountain areas - in terms of the speed, efficiency and quality of development activities. The Aga Khan Development Network has now taken delivery of all four AB139 helicopters ...
Sinndar's daughter Shawanda has been supplemented to the Irish Oaks after pleasing her trainer Alain de Royer-Dupre in her work-out yesterday morning. A further supplement to the race from The Aga Khan stables is the John Oxx trained Hazariya, winner of the Listed Victor McCalmont Memorial Stakes last time out, however stablemate Behkiyra is unlikely to run at this stage. Pictavia ...
Respect for press freedom grows out of a respect for pluralism as a cornerstone of peace and progress. Pluralism implies a readiness to listen to many voices -- whether we agree with them or not -- and a willingness to embrace a rich diversity of cultures. When our diversity divides us, the results can be tragic, as we have seen in ...
Champion Miler Sendawar's first crop of 3 year olds have now won 22 individual races to date in 2005, thanks to Sendalam's victory at the end of June. This keeps him at the top of the list of Leading Second Crop Sires in France. Sendawar's fee at Haras de Bonneval in Normandy is €4000. Updated 04/07/2005. ...
The Aga Khan bred Azamour and Daylami's son Grey Swallow are both currently rated 128, along with Vinnie Roe, on Timeform's Top Rated Older Horses latest listing. The Lagardere bred Valixir, recently acquired by the Aga Khan, has been rated 129 following his Ascot success, leaving only Silent Witness, Roses in May and Rakti ahead of him on a rating of ...
Sinndar's daughters Pictavia and Shawanda may well both contest the forthcoming Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh. Shawanda's trainer Alain de Royer-Dupre is likely to supplement the filly if everything continues to go well with her preparation. Winner of the GR 3 Prix de Royaumont last time out, Shawanda is out of the Darshaan mare Shamawna and has the Prix Vermeille ...
Vol de Nuit, the 4 year old Linamix colt out of Bedside Story ran a tight second to Electrocutionist in the Gran Premio di Milano GR1 at San Siro on 19th June for trainer Lorenzo Brogi. The winner held off by barely a length to win this 12 furlong contest. Vol de Nuit suffered a similar narrow defeat by Coral Eclipse ...
Held up from behind for most of the race, Starpix's late surge from the back of the field came just a fraction too late to catch Turtle Bowl in the final furlong of the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat at Chantilly yesterday. Unlucky in his Group 3 Prix de la Jonchere encounter with Turtle Bowl, when stumbling badly and losing forward ...
The 2yo Kalanisi filly Casata, out of La Menorquina, won her maiden over 51/2 furlongs in the first juvenile race of the year at Klampenborg Racecourse in Copenhagen recently, to give the son of Doyoun his first winner. Trained by F. Reuterskiold at Sweden's southern-most racetrack, Jagersro, the Irish foaled Casata was bought at Goffs February Sale in 2004 for €25 ...
Intercontinental (by Danehill out of the Kahyasi mare Hasili) won the Grade 3 Royal Heroine Invitational Stakes yesterday at Hollywood Park in the US. Owned and bred by Juddmonte Farms, this 5 year old mare has rarely finished unplaced and beat Ticker Tape and Etoile Montante to win last year's Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes in fine style. Meanwhile, the winning Grand ...
News story -- The Symposium, originally inspired by the number of concentrated efforts on Shi'ism at the 2001 annual meeting of the British Association for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) in Edinburgh, Scotland, spawned a meeting of Shi'i Studies scholars the following year at The Institute of Advanced Study, University of Bristol. Building on the successes of the first meeting, this year's gathering ...
Our historic adherence is to the Jafari Madhhab and other Madhahib of close affinity, and it continues, under the leadership of the hereditary Ismaili Imam of the time. This adherence is in harmony also with our acceptance of Sufi principles of personal search and balance between the zahir and the spirit or the intellect which the zahir signifies. Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. I am ...
News story -- The Ismailis represent the second largest Shi'i Muslim community after the Ithna'asharis (Twelvers) and are today resident as religious minorities in more than 25 countries in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. Despite their long and eventful history dating back to the formative period of Islam, until recently the Ismailis were studied primarily on the basis ...
News story -- Dr. Daftary's session provided a survey of early Shi'ism, discussing the nature of Shi'i Islam, to the audience which comprised scholars and students of Islamic studies as well as other interested people. He then elaborated on the long and complex history of the Ismailis, a major Shi'i Muslim community, and the two occasions when they had states of their ...
Beirut, Lebanon, 25 June 2005 - His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) of the Ismaili Muslims and founder of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), was today conferred an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, by the American University of Beirut. In its citation, the University praised the Aga Khan as "an avid philanthropist standing at the head of a ...
The university's fidelity to its founding notion that disciplined, objective inquiry is the property of all humanity, attracts faculty and students of high calibre from dozens of countries and cultures, challenged not only to excel in their chosen fields, but to place their knowledge in the wider context of humanity's pluralist heritage. This is a core principle of my own faith ...
Azamour notched up yet another Group 1 victory in the GR 1 Prince of Wales Stakes at Royal Ascot at York this afternoon under Mick Kinane. He settled early in the race and while Ace challenged early on the straight, Azamour kept on coming and finished strongly, leaving the rest of the field strung out behind him. The 4 year old ...
The Aga Khan owned Valixir, a late supplement to the Queen Anne Stakes, put in a fine performance at York yesterday to beat the favourite Rakti by one and a half lengths. Trainer Andre Fabre's relationship with Valixir's owner is a relatively new one and in the aftermath of his Group 1 victory, His Highness rated him "an outstanding trainer". Jockey ...
