The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
AGA KHAN IVThe Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.
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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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The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.
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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples’ cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity.
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Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.
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Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.
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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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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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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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