Mombasa, Kenya, 21 February 2003 - "Africa and the developing world can help create centres of educational excellence that will at the same time, be international and indigenous, and that will help mould young men and women from all walks of life and all parts of the world into the leaders of tomorrow." His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) ...
Africa and the developing world can help create centres of educational excellence that will at the same time, be international and indigenous, and that will help mould young men and women from all walks of life and all parts of the world into the leaders of tomorrow. His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) of the Ismaili Muslims, yesterday evening ...
Nairobi, Kenya, 17 February 2003 - His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) of the Ismaili Muslims was today received by President Mwai Kibaki at State House, Nairobi. The two leaders held wide-ranging discussions covering the implementation of previously articulated and new expansion plans for the agencies of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Kenya specifically and Eastern Africa ...
Four year old winning colt Hasik topped day three of the Goffs Mixed February Sale, eventually being knocked down to Martin Cullinane for €70,000 having been the object of some fierce bidding. Formerly trained by Sir Michael Stoute, Hasik broke his maiden at Windsor by three lengths, and was placed twice from three runs. By Ashkalani, out of the Stakes winning ...
The only yearling colt by Sinndar available at the Goffs February Sales was knocked down for €72,000 yesterday, making him the top priced yearling of the sale. The good looking brown colt, consigned by Jockey Hall Stud, was the object of some fierce bidding before being knocked down to Jim Murphy of Redpender Stud. His new owner commented: "I have bought ...
The Aga Khan bred Kadarann is now a leading fancy for the Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival, after winning the Grade II Game Spirit Chase at Newbury on Saturday. The six year old gelding's victory prompted the following praise from this training Paul Nicholls: "He's got loads of talent, the track suits him, and he was 110 per ...
News story -- During the 13th century, the Persian-speaking lands, extending from Central Asia to Iraq, were devastated by a series of Mongol invasions. Their movement from the inner steppes of Asia resulted in the massacre and displacement of many communities, including the Ismaili Muslims of the region. The fall of the chief Ismaili fortress of Alamut in 1256, followed by the ...
News story -- Clip 01 - Nation-States and International [3:00 minutes] Clip 02 -Cordoba and Knowledge without Frontiers [1:50] Clip 03 - Religious Vocabulary and Olduvai Gorge [5:11] Clip 04 -The Garden and Paradise [6:45] Alluding to the predicaments generated by recent world events, Azim Nanji began his talk by intimating that inherited organising principles such as the model of the nation-state ...
News story -- The next seminar in the series will continue to focus on the region: Dr Olivier Roy, Research Director of the National Centre for Social Research, Paris will speak on "Civil Identity in the New Central Asia" on 16th February, 2001. Other forthcoming seminars in the series include Dr Iftikhar Malik on Pakistan, Dr Ziba Mir-Hosseini on "Civil Society and ...
Unbeaten in 3 runs at 2, including the Gr I Critérium International, Dalakhani is rated 118 by the International Classifications , making him the leading juvenile colt trained in France. A half brother to World Champion Daylami, himself winner of seven Group I races, Dalakhani was probably awarded this excellent rating on the back of his victory in the Critérium International, ...
News story -- Azim Nanji, Director of The Institute of Ismaili Studies, began the formal proceedings by situating the development and progress of the Institute within the larger Ismaili commitment to education. As early as the tenth century, the Fatimid imam al-Mu'izz established al-Azhar university in Cairo and the library at Alamut was a repository of knowledge for the Ismaili communities of ...
News story -- Annemarie Schimmel at the IIS in 1984. The cover of volume one of Popular Poetry of the Baloches, published in 1907.Professor Schimmel, who passed away in January 2003, was one of the foremost experts on Persian poetry and Sufism. Her publications included hundreds of articles and books on Islamic art, theology, poetry, calligraphy and mysticism, as well as translations ...
News story -- The Giorgio Levi Della Vida Medal of the Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, is awarded every 2 or 3 years to an outstanding scholar whose work has significantly and lastingly advanced the study of Muslim civilisations. The award, which was inaugurated in 1967, consists of a bronze medal and a ...
News story -- The one-day conference examined literature written in Kiswahili, English as well as languages of the Subcontinent, and culminated with a keynote reading by Booker Prize nominee Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose books include Paradise, Admiring Silence and By The Sea. For at least 2,500 years, the east coast of Africa and South Asia have been partners in a network of Indian ...
News story -- The 'Uyun al-akhbar is the most complete text written by an Ismaili author on the history of the Ismaili community from its origins up to the 12th century CE. The seventh volume, edited here for the first time, together with an English summary, deals in particular with the period of the Fatimid caliphs al-Mustansir (d. 487/1094), the time of ...
Education must also make the case for a pluralistic tradition in which other views, ethnicities, religions and perspectives are valued not only because that is just and good, but also because pluralism is the climate best suited for creativity, curiosity and inquiry to thrive. It must also stimulate students to consider a variety of perspectives on some of the fundamental questions ...
[Google translation] I do not deny that in some defects in the Muslim world's political leaders are in. But I refuse, the American model as a panacea to see the democracy that we just prescribe the developing world, and everything will be fine. Government forms carry within them the seeds of failure, especially if they are rooted in the population and ...
Astana, Kazakhstan, 17 December 2002 - "Kazakhstan has the potential to guarantee stability across the Central Asian region. By carefully positioning and investing its human and material resources, the country can help assure both social harmony and economic prosperity in one of the world's most vulnerable regions." His Highness the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims, today acknowledged the ...
Astana, Kazakhstan, 17 December 2002 - His Highness the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims, today acknowledged the country's vital and strategic role for the development of Central Asia. The Aga Khan, who was on a short visit to Astana, also received from President Nursultan Nazarbayev the State Award for Peace and Progress. ...
Kazakhstan has the potential to guarantee stability across the Central Asian region. By carefully positioning and investing its human and material resources, the country can help assure both social harmony and economic prosperity in one of the world's most vulnerable regions.... I firmly believe that peace will be possible only when the pluralistic nature of human society is recognised, seen as ...
Shemita, a Sadler's Wells daughter of Prix de Diane winner Shemaka, headed an excellent sale for the Aga Khan Studs' draft of fillies and mares at Deauville when making 300,000 Euros. This unraced filly is also a half sister to the Listed winner Shemaya, by Darshaan. Closely related to Shemita, and also unraced, Shashzaya was responsible for the draft's next highest ...
News story -- Classes in Modern Standard Arabic, Classical Texts and Grammar were specially devised for the IIS by the American Language Institute in Fez (ALIF), a centre providing Arabic tuition for many institutions internationally as well as for Fulbright scholars. The Class of 2003 with Nina Turnbull and Mohammed Baghdadi (Programme Co-ordinator, Alif) Fez is host to a wealth of history, ...
Velvet Moon, who topped the Tattersalls December mares sale when selling for 875,000 Guineas, is another from the excellent book of mares covered by Daylami in 2002. Velvet Moon, herself the winner of the Group II Lowther Stakes, is the dam of Moon Ballad who won this year's Group II Dante Stakes before finishing third in the Epsom Derby and second ...
Ebaraya, a winning Sadler's Wells full sister to Champion Three year old filly Ebadiyla, topped the {Aga Khan} Studs' draft of fillies and mares sold at the Goffs November sale. Also a half sister to Gr I winners Edabiya and Enzeli, she was purchased by Sean Mulryan of Ardenode Stud for 925,000 euros on Saturday evening. Commenting on his purchase, Mr. ...
Kabul, Afghanistan, 20 November 2002 - Prince Amyn Aga Khan, younger brother of His Highness the Aga Khan, today announced a substantial investment by the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) to initiate tourism, commercial and urban redevelopment in the capital of Afghanistan through the establishment of a world-class hotel in the centre of Kabul. Following meetings with President Hamid ...
"The instability that we see around the world, from Afghanistan to Central Europe, is a consequence of the rejection of cultural pluralism," said the Aga Khan, a man who knows a great deal about cultural pluralism. He blames that rejection on the enormous gulf of knowledge between the Islamic and the non-Islamic world, a situation that, he said, leaves him deeply ...
Philanthropic initiatives cannot be contemplated exclusively in terms of economics, but rather as an integrated programme that encompasses social and cultural dimensions as well.... [Strengthening pluralism] is critical to the development of peace and humankind in the 21st century. [But] we must educate for it. Interviewer: Dana Micucci in Boston "The instability that we see around the world, from Afghanistan to ...
Kabul, Afghanistan, 5 November 2002 - Enabling governance structures, focused economic development, sensitive urban revitalisation, mutually supportive regional policies and a strong social service infrastructure were key topics in discussions held here over the past two days between His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) of the Ismaili Muslims and President Hamid Karzai, Vice Presidents Hedayat Amin Arsala and Karim ...
Dalakhani confirmed his Classic potential with a thrilling victory in the Group I Criterium International at Saint-Cloud on Saturday. Kept in a handy position for much of the race, Dalakhani accelerated well in the straight to finish a neck ahead of long time leader Chevalier, the pair were five lengths clear of the rest of the field. The two year old ...
News story -- In his opening remarks, Dr Amyn Sajoo, Visiting Fellow and series co-ordinator, reminded the audience of the indigenous roots of civic participation in Pakistan. This was reflected in His Highness the Aga Khan's speech made in Islamabad last October on the ethical basis of civic solidarity in the context of Indigenous Philanthropy. The Institute looks forward to welcoming a ...
Tem, Tajikistan and Demogan, Afghanistan, 3 November 2002 - Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmonov, His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) of the Ismaili Muslims and Afghanistan's Vice-President Hedayat Amin Arsala today inaugurated the first of a series of bridges across the Pyanj River that will consolidate permanent overland links between Tajikistan and Afghanistan. The US$400,000 project, undertaken by the Aga ...
Bridging the Pyanj River today means creating a corridor of hope and opportunity for this entire region. By facilitating the flow of goods, services, knowledge and technology in both directions, this bridge will allow communities on either side of the frontier, as well as neighbouring countries, to gain from one another and to contribute to one another's welfare. AKDN Press Release ...
News story -- Al-Ghazali and the Ismailis, the 5th volume in the Ismaili Heritage Series, examines the Kitab al-Mustazhiri, one of the more detailed works of the 11th century theologian, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. AH 505/1111 CE). This work is part of his polemical engagement against the Ismailis of the Fatimid and early Alamut periods. Through the treatment of the text as ...
Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, 29 October-1 November 2002 - High in the mountains of Central Asia, a private, secular, not-for-profit university, dedicated to the eradication of the poverty all around it, is rising from barren ground in three predominantly Muslim countries. Thanks to an initial contribution to the endowment of US $15 million from His Highness the Aga Khan, Chairman of the ...
Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, 1 November 2002 - Wars. Earthquakes. Landslides. Narcotics. Ethnic Cleansing. Poverty. Are mountains the source of many of today's miseries? Or of much of tomorrow's hope? His Highness the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims, this week demonstrated the argument for optimism as heads of state, international leaders and mountain experts gathered together to mark the ...
AKDN's work in mountain communities has shown that attention to a combination of critical elements at the field level can make a powerful difference. These factors include: working with or creating community organisations that can progressively operate on their own; providing matching funds for community level infrastructure projects, selected and built in large measure by the community; supplying credit and improved ...
John Oxx trained Masani achieved the second highest price ever at the Tattersalls Autumn Sale when making 250,000 guineas on Tuesday evening. The Irish Cambridgeshire winner was knocked down to bloodstock agent John McCormack on behalf of clients from Hong Kong. He commented after the sale: "You couldn't ask for a more straightforward horse and he has been bought from a ...
Osh, Kyrgyz Republic, 30 October 2002 - Creative long-term solutions for poverty-struck regions and the country's future educational needs characterise two major new resources established here today by His Highness the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims. In a meeting with Governor Naken Kasiev, the Aga Khan outlined an integrated development programme that the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) ...
30 October 2002 (Osh, Kyrgyzstan): Honorary Professorship from Osh State University investiture ceremony.30 October 2002 (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan): Agreement between Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development and Government of Kyrgyzstan 'Economic Co-operation Agreement' Signing Ceremony. Aga Khan: "If we remember clearly where all the investment is channelled to, we find that they are channelled into developing all the regions, except the mountainous ...
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 ...
