The issues we have been attempting to address through the process of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture are not exclusive to the Muslim world. The non-Muslim world struggles equally with explosive population growth, poverty, environmental degradation, exodus from rural areas, globalisation and the … Read more

I would like to focus today on what I believe are three essential pre-conditions for the successful transition of the poorest areas of the world into modern, peaceful societies. They are: Read more

Date: 2004-06-18 00:00:00 Location: Speaker: Source URL: https://the.ismaili/gb/en/speech/convocation-university-torontos-ontario-institute-studies-education Source: Ismaili website Full Text Members of the Governing Council, Faculty, Students and Parents, Fellow Graduates, I thank you for your warm welcome, and am deeply moved by the honour that this renowned institution of learning has done of conferring upon me the degree of Doctor of… Read more

In the long history of the Ismaili Imamat’s engagement with education, covering well over a 1000 years and numerous countries past and present, few days can have been as important as this one…. Read more

The Ismaili Centre being designed for a Muslim Community must reflect, even if only discreetly, an Islamic mood whilst being sympathetic to the character of its surroundings…. Read more

[AKU] must continue to expand its programmes of research. The true sign of maturity and excellence in a university is its ability to contribute to the knowledge of mankind, in its own society and beyond. It is equally essential that its faculty be challenged, as a matter of university policy, to exp… Read more

[It] is not a simple matter for any human society with a concern and appreciation of its history to relate its heritage to its contemporary conditions. Traditions evolve in a context, and the context always changes, thus demanding a new understanding of essential principles. For us Muslims, this is … Read more

Date: August 30, 2003 Location: Tajikistan Speaker: His Late Highness Aga Khan IV Source URL: https://the.akdn/en/resources-media/resources/speeches/dushanbe-fresh-water-forum-his-highness-the-aga-khan Source: AKDN website Full Text By His Late Highness Aga Khan IV,Dushanbe, Tajikistan·30 August 2003·5 min Your Excellency President RakhmonovYour Excellency Prime Minister AkilovExcellenciesDistinguished ParticipantsLadies and Gentlemen I am pleased to have this opportunity to speak at the beginning of… Read more

[I]t is not at all clear that the quality of life has a direct, one-to-one relationship with the level of production or even the breadth of access to what an economy produces. Without doubt growth plays a central role in the increasing of human welfare and the dignity of life. But other dimensions a… Read more