he two worlds, Muslim and non-Muslim, Eastern and Western, must, as a matter of urgency, make a real effort to get to know one another, for I fear that what we have is not a clash of civilisations, but a clash of ignorance on both sides.
AGA KHAN IVA proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue of his own intellect.
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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.
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The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.
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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.
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There are those… who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot.
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While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration.
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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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