Speeches and Interviews of Aga Khan IV
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Interview: The Age Interview – ‘Aga Khan: Enigma of East and West’
You make no claim to be divine. But do you believe you are divinely guided?
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Interview: Sunday Telegraph Magazine Interview – ‘The Quiet Prince Of Islam’
I am not affected by suggestions in print that I live a luxurious Western life, while most Ismailis live in underdeveloped Eastern countries (he…
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Speech: Closing Remarks, Third Seminar, AKAA
A major achievement of our seminar has been to highlight how very little is known of what is or might be appropriate housing for…
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Speech: Opening Remarks, Third Seminar, ‘Housing Process and Physical Form’, AKAA
The present seminar, which has gathered some of the most eminent thinkers and policy makers in the field of housing, must address a much…
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Video Interview: CTV Canada AM Interview
One of the main causes we hear of the strife in Iran is that the Shah wants progress…. Many of the religious leaders in…
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Speech: Closing Remarks, Second Seminar, AKAA
The Aga Khan Awards, the first of which will be granted in 1980, will be substantial: $100,000 in each of five different categories for…
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Speech: Opening Remarks, Second Seminar, ‘Conservation as Cultural Survival’, AKAA
All cultures naturally influence each other to a greater or lesser degree; the strongest are those in which the dominant elements remain dominant and…
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Speech: Presidential Address, International Seerat Conference – ‘Life of the Prophet’
I have observed in the Western world a deeply changing pattern of human relations. The anchors of moral behaviour appear to have dragged to…
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Speech: University of Sind Convocation Ceremony
It is through the creation of such a new elite, inspired by, and widely read in everything related to our heritage, that there must…
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Interview: Elle Magazine Interview – ‘Mystery of the Aga Khan’
[Google translation] [A] question I posed to a Christian philosopher: technology, according to you, it does not compete with God? With advances in science,…
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Speech: Peshawar University Convocation Ceremony
Material progress apart, I do not think it should ever be assumed that only the smaller, poorer nations are faced by apparently insoluble problems.…
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Interview: Jeune Afrique Interview (1st) – ‘Prince of Islam and businessman’
[Google translation] One last question: how do you see the future? The future of the Third World?