Speeches and Interviews of Aga Khan IV
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Speech: Opening Address, Expressions of Islam in Buildings Seminar
The essence of the Aga Khan Award is to premiate outstanding quality in all principal aspects of the built environment for Muslims. We seek…
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Interview: India Today Interview (1st)
As Imam of the Ismaili sect, I am in a position to adapt the teachings of the Qur’an to the modern condition. On the…
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Interview: Riad Naguib El-Rais Interview – ‘The Critical Time’
God has favoured me with the blessing of Islam. I think that many religions find it difficult to adapt to or to live in…
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Speech: AKDN Enabling Environment Conference Opening Session
One challenge facing you as participants in this conference is to find specific ways to nurture, and to draw lessons from, these private experiments…
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Video Interview: CBC Interview (1st), Man Alive
One of the most difficult questions I ask and, and I’ve asked it I don’t know how many times, is simply “What is the…
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Speech: Opening Remarks, Tenth Seminar, ‘Architecture Education in the Islamic World’, AKAA
The starting point for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture was a realisation that changing social and economic conditions, coupled with the accelerating pace…
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Interview: Pakistan Television Corporation Interview
I think in terms of, let us say, the philosophical environment in which an individual lives, there is no doubt that the faith of…
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Video Interview: ITV Interview (2nd)
[O]ne of the questions to which I don’t have an answer, but I would like to find one, is, what is happiness — for…
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Speech: Opening Remarks, Ninth Seminar, ‘The Expanding Metropolis’, AKAA
[T]he poor can display considerable ingenuity in improving their own environment and in utilising locally available materials. I was delighted when Hassan Fathy’s work…
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Speech: Institute of Ismaili Studies and University of London Graduation Ceremony
The Islamic world, as we all know, is being compelled to face two challenges at the same time. That of dealing with the Islamic…
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Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at a lunch given by AKF, Toronto
Date: April 27, 1983 Location: Canada Speaker: His Late Highness Aga Khan IV Source URL: https://the.akdn/en/resources-media/resources/speeches/lunch-given-aga-khan-foundation-toronto-his-highness-the-aga-khan Source: AKDN website Full Text By His Late…
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Interview: Khaleej Times Interview – ‘Aga Khan stresses investment in people’
On the whole, though the Ismaili community wherever it exists is well tolerated by the majority community. Is it because a low profile is…