April 13, 1984

Islamic Architecture: Concerns and Directions

Dean Robertson, Members of the Faculty, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Q- Am I right that the Ismaili Faith is an esoteric one, that's to say, only real scholars and experts have read all the crucial texts that enable them to understand the inner nature of your religion?

A- "Yes, this is so."

Q- Do you consider yourself expert in these?

AH-Men have different reasons for serving humanity and their country. What are yours, Your Highness?

An agreement providing for the restructuring and expansion of the activities of the Diamond Trust of Kenya Limited (DTK) into the field of merchant banking was signed on 30 July, 1982 at Aiglemont, the Aga Khan's Secretariat near Paris, by DTK, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Samu

Zanzibar - venue for eleventh international Seminar
Rapid demographic growth and deteriorating economic conditions in rural areas are adding millions more people every year to the already overcrowded cities of the Third World.

Your Honour, Premier, Your Eminence, Your Honour the Chief Justice, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen.

Your Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen.

DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA, AT 5 P.M. ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1970
Your Excellency,
Your Highness,
Honourable Ministers,
Your excellencies,
Distinguished guests,
Ladies and gentlemen,

Your Excellency,

Your Excellency,
Distinguished Guests,

Ladies and Gentlemen.

Your Excellency, Mr. Ahmedali Merchant, Members of the Education and Housing Boards, Ladies and Gentlemen.

Your Excellency the Vice President, Your Excellencies, Members of Parliament, Ladies and Gentlemen

Your Excellency The President, Your Excellency the Vice-President, Honourable Ministers, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen

Your Excellency The President, Your Excellency The Governor of Sind, Honourable Ministers, Your Excellencies, Dr Ramachandran, Distinguished Guests

Your Excellency The President, Your Excellency The Governor of Sind, Honourable Ministers, Excellencies, Distinguished Guests

Your Excellency the President, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen

It gives me profound pleasure to be in Versova again to open the housing project which I inaugurated here almost exactly five years ago and to be performing the ceremony in the presence of such distinguished guests.

Your Excellency The President, Your Excellencies, Honourable Ministers, Distinguished Guests.
Three years ago the first Aga Khan Architectural Awards were announced in the fabled Shalimar Gardens of Lahore.

Your Excellency the President, Honourable Ministers, Your Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen

To be in Kenya again in my Jubilee year, remembering vividly my Takht Nashini, which seems only yesterday, is a most moving experience.

Your Excellency the Governor Pulat Majidovich, Your Excellencies, Honourable Ministers, Distinguished guests

Your Excellency The Governor Of Baluchistan,Honourable Federal Minister For Culture and Tourism,
Distinguished Guests,

Your Excellency the First Deputy Prime Minister, Your Excellency the Governor of Cairo, Distinguished guests

Your Excellency President Zia-ul-Haq, Your Excellency the Governor of Sind, Honourable Ministers, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen

Your Excellency President Zia-ul-Haq, Your Excellency Dr Jogezai, Dr Mahler, Mr Perinbam, Distinguished Guests

To you all I extend a warm and sincere welcome to the inaugural session of this conference on 'The Role of Hospitals in Primary Health Care'.

Your Excellencies,
Honourable Ministers,

Ladies and Gentlemen.

Your Excellencies, Your Worship the Mayor, Representatives of International Agencies, Ladies and Gentlemen.

Your Excellencies, Your Honours, Your Grace, Chief Rabbi, Honourable Ministers, Your Worship, Ladies and Gentlemen:

Your Excellencies, Your Highnesses, Your Worship, My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, My spiritual children

Your Excellencies, Your Highnesses, Your Worship, Ladies and Gentlemen, My spiritual children

I thank you most warmly for your kind addresses. I shall never forget the wonderful welcome I have had in Kampala, not only from my own people, but from all other communities that live here.

Your Excellencies, Your Highness, Your Worship, Ladies and Gentlemen, My spiritual children

Your Excellencies, Your Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, My spiritual children

May I say how glad I am to be back in Dacca for the purpose of publicly celebrating my installation as forty-ninth Imam of the Shia Imami Ismailis.

Your Excellencies, My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen.

Your Excellencies, Mr. Ahmedali Merchant, Members of the Education Board, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen.

Your Excellencies, Mr Irani, Mr Galliner, Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen

Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,

It gives me great happiness this afternoon to be present at this ceremony which honours one of Pakistan's leading citizens who, for myself and my family, has also been a very dear friend.

Your Excellencies, Honourable Ministers, President Morani and Members of my Federal Council for India, Distinguished guests

Your Excellencies, Honourable Minister, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Your Excellency,The Honourable Senator Perrault,
The Honourable Mrs. Grace McCarthy,
Deputy Premier of British Columbia,
Your worship The Mayor of Burnaby,
Distinguished Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen:

Convocation Address at Sind University-Jamshoro
February 6, 1970

What we admire in you above all is the fact that you have been able to integrate a modern outlook with religion so that religion has been allowed its true role which is not merely to provide an all-embracing explanation of the universe but also to furnish the fundamental solutions of the problems

The following are excepts from a lecture on 'Islam and the West' given by Prince Charles, the Prince of W ales, at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, England on the 27th of October, 1993:

The first question Mansoor asked Mowlana Hazar Imam was how had His Highness met the Begum.

The greatest untapped resource in the developing world is people. When there is a shortage of properly trained manpower, development projects may be ineffective and valuable resources wasted.

The Ismaili sect, with its social and theologically liberal outlook, is probably the most progressive in the Islamic world. Spread over four continents its adherents are guided by their high profile Imam, Prince Karim Aga Khan.

The Karachi Jamat was blessed with the gracious presence of Sarkar Mowlana Hazar Imam Shah Karim al-Husayni from 13th February 1981 when he arrived at about 11:30 in the night, to Tuesday 17th February, when he left around 10 in the morning.

The leaders of all African Countries today are faced with the need to raise the living standards of the mass of their peoples from mere subsistence level to a point where men and women can develop the full potential of their minds and bodies.

The role of criticism in architecture was the theme of a seminar organized by the Aga Khan Award for Architecture held in Malta, 7 to 9 December 1987.
More than 60 architects, scholars and critics for both developed and developing countries attended the three-day session.

The School, established in 1967, is one of the leading private schools in Tanzania, providing education from Form I to Form VI to seven hundred students, and employing thirty four teachers.

The spiritual leader of 15 million Ismailis - of which 2500 live in France - has made his 24 year old daughter Zahra his privileged partner. The princess grew up in Paris, was schooled in Switzerland, then obtained her degree in Economic Development in the Third World at Harvard.

The third seminar of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture has come to an end.

Under bright blue skies, Mowlana Hazar Imam descended the steps of his aircraft onto a red carpet at Bombay's Santa Cruz Airport on Monday, November 9th, 1992 at the start of a 15 day visit to India as a guest of the Government of India.