Speeches and Interviews of Aga Khan IV
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Speech: Acceptance Address – Granada de Oro
Granada is truly exceptional; its history is steeped in influences from several major world cultures, each of which is richly represented in the city’s…
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Speech: Centro Ismaili, Lisbon, Opening Ceremony
Although my faith and office place upon me a distinctive perspective and role, I am most certainly not alone in my concern about the…
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Speech: Hadrian Award Ceremony – Presentation to Dr. Phyllis Lambert
Dr. Lambert’s contributions extend beyond her work as a patron, builder, and leader of a unique institution. Her accomplishments as a practitioner are remarkable…
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Interview: BBC Radio Interview
I don’t think of myself as a person with a nationality. I was brought up since my youngest age as a Muslim. My university…
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Speech: Centro Ismaili Lisbon Foundation Stone Ceremony
Although Ismailis have lived in the West since the late 1950s, only two other Ismaili centres of this importance and magnitude have been built…
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Speech: Commonwealth Press Union Conference Keynote Address – ‘The Spirit of Creative Encounter’
[T]he spirit of Creative Encounter [between cultures] will never become a dominant force in our world without the strong and effective leadership of the…
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Speech: Brown University Commencement Ceremony
From the seventh century to the thirteenth century, the Muslim civilisations dominated world culture, accepting, adopting, using and preserving all preceding study of mathematics,…
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Interview: Pranay Gupte Interview, Newsweek
Pranay Gupte: How has your world changed in the 42 years that you have been the Aga Khan?
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Interview: Paris Match Interview (2nd)
[Translation] Who in your mind are the strongmen of the Muslim world of tomorrow?
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Interview: Paris Match Interview (1st)
[Translation] Your Highness, 49th Imam, descendant of Prophet Muhammad, you are the spiritual leader of the Ismailis, a Shia movement of 15 million Muslims.…
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Speech: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Commencement Ceremony – ‘Encounters’
The religious diversity of Islam is important, and misunderstood by most non-Muslims…. But, for many in the West, the first awareness that there were…
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Speech: Keynote address to the International Union of Architects Congress
[To the architects:] Do not only set the example, share it in a generous and deliberate way, so that it reaches all those who…