Speeches and Interviews of Aga Khan IV
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Interview: Pakistan and Gulf Economist Interview – ‘Aga Khan’s Three-point Strategy for Third World’
How would you comment on the notion popularised by Western critics that scientific and technological progress is incompatible with the practice of Islam?
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Speech: Opening Remarks, Seventh Seminar, ‘Reading the Contemporary African City’, AKAA
It is quite logical to presume that it is easier at the periphery of the vast experience of Islam to identify those ways in…
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The private sector in economic development
Date: 1982-10-07 00:00:00 Location: Speaker: Source URL: https://the.ismaili/gb/en/speech/private-sector-economic-development Source: Ismaili website Full Text It is a double pleasure to address so distinguished an audience…
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The conference “The role of hospitals in primary health care”
Date: 1981-11-22 00:00:00 Location: Speaker: Source URL: https://the.ismaili/gb/en/speech/conference-role-hospitals-primary-health-care Source: Ismaili website Full Text My remarks today focus on three critical interdependent areas: reinforcing hospital-community…
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Speech: Opening Remarks, Sixth Seminar, ‘The Changing Rural Habitat’, AKAA
Somehow ways have to be found to make the countryside itself a more desirable place to live in, which in turn demands an ability…
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Interview: Pakistan TV Interview
[W]ould you care to identify one single area in which you think that certain countries need to undertake great effort which could act as…
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Speech: First Aga Khan Award for Architecture Prize Ceremony
We may well ask whether the premiated projects truly represent the great traditions of Islamic architecture. There are no mosques among them, no madrasah,…
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Speech: Closing Remarks, Fifth Seminar, AKAA
Much has been said at the seminar about influencing decision makers, and there are no more important decision makers in Jordan than the King,…
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Speech: Opening Remarks, Fifth Seminar, ‘Places of Public Gathering In Islam’, AKAA
Major public buildings and spaces are often large, easily identifiable and have considerable symbolic and physical presence within the environment. They are generally designed…
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Speech: Closing Remarks, Fourth Seminar, ‘Architecture as Symbol and Self-Identity’, AKAA
This seminar has been extremely helpful in providing the Steering Committee, and therefore me, with an understanding of the symbols of the city. I…
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Speech: Address to the Asia Society – ‘The Physical Structure of Islam’
I told our [hospital] architect … that his idiom should reflect the spirit of Islam. How was this to be done? I did not…
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Video Interview: BBC Radio 4 Interview
Well, in what matters then do you specifically intervene? What is your influence and authority?