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It is striking to me that the continent of Africa, with fully one-sixth of the world?s population, produces only four percent of the world?s electricity - 2008-08-21

Hydro electric power fulfills that goal. It is 'clean' energy - advancing sustainable development while minimizing its environmental impact.

AKFED?s constant goal is to build institutions of enduring excellence, embracing state-of-the-art technologies and world-class standards - 2008-08-21

From the very beginnings of civilization, the use of water - intelligently, respectfully, and creatively - has been at the very center of human concerns - 2008-08-21

Let me also explain that in Islam, the role of an Imam is not limited to the domain of faith. It also includes a deep engagement in the world, in all of the wide and complex issues that affect our quality of life

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abi Talib emphasized in his teachings that 'No honour is like knowledge.' Those words have inspired an emphasis on education within our tradition ever since that time - 2008-08-13

Hydro electric power fulfills that goal. It is 'clean' energy - advancing sustainable development while minimizing its environmental impact.

It is striking to me that the continent of Africa, with fully one-sixth of the world's population, produces only four percent of the world's electricity - 2008-08-21

The Aga Khan Hospitals in Kenya, and everywhere else they exist - in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tanzania - operate on a non-profit basis - no dividends are ever distributed, but they also aim to operate on a break even, self-sustaining basis. - 2008-08-13

The Aga Khan University (AKU) itself opened officially in 1983 in Pakistan where, I am happy to note, it has been voted as the country's leading university - 2008-08-13

AKFED's constant goal is to build institutions of enduring excellence, embracing state-of-the-art technologies and world-class standards - 2008-08-21

From the very beginnings of civilization, the use of water - intelligently, respectfully, and creatively - has been at the very center of human concerns - 2008-08-21

Let me also explain that in Islam, the role of an Imam is not limited to the domain of faith. It also includes a deep engagement in the world, in all of the wide and complex issues that affect our quality of life - 2013-11-27

living in the context of the moral discipline of Islam, I think, is important. Because living in a society where freedom eventually becomes equated with license, is not what I would want.

Go back to the origins of Islam. It was a Faith practiced in a land with no physical frontiers. The concept of the modern state is not really an Islamic concept. Islam was a brotherhood, is a brotherhood.

The Seljuks proved unable to create a strong, durable and centralized Empire or to destroy the Fatimid Anti-Caliphate in Egypt. Their conceptions of government were primitive, and despite the efforts of Nizam al-Mulk to instruct them in the principles of ancient Persian despotism, which he regarded as the only satisfactory form of rule, they treated their realm as family property..

Countless cycles of manifestation and concealment succeed each other until the Great Resurrection (qiyamat al-qiyamat) which consummates the megacycle (al-kawr al-a'zam), sometimes specified to last 360,000 times 360,000 years.

It is from Islam that we in the West can extend a lot of gratitude towards, for preserving works of antiquity from being completely lost to us. This is not something to be passed over lightly, as so many people might tend to do, when considering the past. The implications here are great. Outside of the surviving schools of the Thebaid brethren, and the Jewish schools in France, Spain, and Southern Germany, intellectual culture did not exist, in the West during the so-called Dark Ages. The degradation brought upon society by the Church lasted until...

UNESCO has classified the hundred most important cities in the world. More than one-third of those one hundred cities around the world are within the Ummah.

How can credible leadership be nurtured in rural environments when rural children have nowhere to go after primary school? The experience of the Aga Khan Development Network is that secondary education for rural youth is a condition sine qua non for sustainable progress.