Week-in-Review — Jan 4, 2009 January 5, 2009
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“World and faith are inseparable in Islam. Faith and learning are also profoundly interconnected. The Holy Qur’an sees the discovery of knowledge as a spiritual responsibility, enabling us to better understand and more ably serve God’s creation.” This is one of several Golden Jubilee Quotes of Aga Khan IV on the subjects of Knowledge, Intellect, Creation, Education, Science and Religion, July 11 ‘07 to Dec 13 ‘08 shared from the blogosphere by Easy Nash.
This week’s Ismailis in the News features Bilaal Rajan, a young activist who is spreading the message of change through his new book, Making Change: Tips from an Underage Overachiever, with an objective to inspire children to take action and create a more peaceful, caring world. Dr Nuruddin Hirani sheds some light on the history of Ismailis who came to Mumbai between 1801 and 1810 in the early 19th century.
Featured in this week’s Ismaili Muslim Authors is Hussein Rashid, who blogs about an Introduction to Ashura at Beliefnet. Karim Imamdad Hunzai writes about A Mystical Journey: Sufi Music and other Expressions of Devotion from the Muslim World, a Golden Jubilee International Programme featuring music from various Sufi and other esoteric traditions of Islam which was held in Paris. Allamah Nasir al-Nasir Hunzai writes about the Early Life of Nasir-i-Khusraw.
In our Ismaili Muslim Artists this week, we introduce you to Sonny Sultani, a poet and artist from Chicago. He frequently writes his poetry at : http://momin313.blogspot.com/.
In Africa, for Ismailis in Mombasa, the Golden Jubilee year of His Highness the Aga Khan ended on a fetching note on 13 December, the birthday of His Highness, as they gathered to listen to the melodious Tanzanian born Nizar Damji, famously known as Nizar and Party, whose melodies kept both young and old smiling and singing.
From Canada, the opening of the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat was among one of Canada’s top ten stories, and the Globe and Mail talks about its architectural splendor.
In Central Asia, an International Conference on School Safety, a Golden Jubilee Initiative, aimed at sharing learning about issues related to school safety across the globe and to come up with recommendations for action at national and regional levels, was organised at Islamabad, Pakistan on 14-16 May, 2008. The Aga Khan University Centre of English Language has organised the 5th International Seminar on Teaching English in Multilingual Contexts: Current Challenges, Future Directions to be held on April 18-19, 2009 in Karachi.
The Aga Khan Development Network welcomes your interest in employment opportunities with the AKDN. Visit AKDN’s Career Centre to browse through job descriptions of current vacancies and create and update your personal profile within the Network’s active database. In an article from the Institute of Ismaili Studies, Professor Azim Nanji talks about a Changing Religious Landscape: Perspectives on the Muslim Experience in North America.
In other news, the Amman Message project has already made a contribution in the struggle to define Islam, as it talks about the role of consensus in the contemporary struggle for Islam.
Fahid Hamid Ali does art with renderings of love paintings and a variety of other art work displayed by Fahim Hamid in Wasani art gallery, is a collection of recordings of love on canvas. Fahim also has had the honour of painting Prince Karim Aga Khan’s first ever portrait on glass. We have an excellent poem, The Light of the Imam, by author and poet, Jim Davis. You may read more about him here at his blog or at his listserv. We bring you photographs taken in 1969 when Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, the then U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, came to Santiago, Chile on an official visit.
That is all from this week, hope you will be looking forward to more exciting and interesting news and stories next week. Click here for last week’s review. All previously archived weekly reviews are available here.
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