Speeches and Interviews of Aga Khan IV
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Speech: Aga Khan Academy, Mombasa, Foundation Stone Ceremony
[A new] World Bank study confirms a central tenet of our Academies planning, our confidence in the value of a residential campus. We believe…
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Speech: ‘Spirit & Life’ Opening Ceremony
This exhibition is designed to give us a glimpse into the future. What we see here today is the nucleus of the Islamic art…
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Speech: Golden Jubilee Inaugural Ceremony
In a world where quality of life is increasingly measured in material terms there is risk that the essential value system of Islam will…
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Interview: L’Express Interview – ‘The ethic of Islam rests on generosity’
[Google translation] It is necessary to constantly consider the relationship between the Ummah and the knowledge society. One realises that countries that have succeeded…
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Speech: 2006 Aga Khan University Convocation Ceremony
If we judge from Islamic history, there is much to encourage us. For century after century, the Arabs, the Persians, the Turks and many…
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Video Interview: CBC Interview (3rd), One-on-One with Peter Mansbridge
Baghdad is one of the great historic cities of the Islamic world. Iraq is not a new country. It’s part of the history of…
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Speech: Funding Agreement for the Global Centre for Pluralism Signing
As Canadians know so well, the idea of pluralism is not a new one in this world. It has honourable and ancient foundations, including…
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Interview: Spiegel Online Interview (2nd) – ‘Islam Is a Faith of Reason’
Does Islam have a problem with reason? Not at all. Indeed, I would say the contrary. Of the Abrahamic faiths, Islam is probably the…
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Speech: Aga Khan Academy, Hyderabad, Foundation Stone Ceremony
What we begin here may not have its full impact in any of our lifetimes. But the beginnings we undertake today may well be…
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Speech: American University in Cairo Commencement Ceremony
At various times in world history, the locus of knowledge has moved from one centre of learning to another. Europe once came to the…
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Speech: Acceptance Address – Tutzing Evangelical Academy’s ‘Tolerance’ Award
There is a human impulse it seems — fed by fear — to define “identity” in negative terms. We often determine “who we are”…
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Speech: School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, Commencement
[D]emocratic institutions have not lived up to their potential. In both the developed and the developing world, the promise of democracy has too often…