Extended Quotes
Refresh your minds with marvels of wisdom because minds too get tired as your bodies do. — Hazrat Ali
Click on a theme from the list below to see all quotes in the category (they appear below the category list). Note that quotes may appear in more than one theme. Click on the “All Quotes (Chronologically)” category below to view all quotes; newest quotes appear first.
Each quote is also available in an attractive PDF format for posting on jamatkhana notice boards or as teaching aids, seminar handouts, discussion topics, general references, etc.
Also see our attractive, one page thematic charts which provide selected quotes for easy-to-digest synopses of some His Highness the Aga Khan’s key insights and advices, theme by theme.
- NanoWisdoms' thematic chart on history (Islam) ·· PDF
- 2013.02.11 - Excerpts: His Highness the Aga Khan on tradition and modernity in Islamic architecture - Of "bogus orientalism" & "alien models" ·· PDF
- 2013.02.08 - Excerpts: Their Highnesses the Aga Khans III and IV on tradition and modernity -- Part 4/4: Innovate; "Discover new knowledge" ·· PDF
- 2013.02.04 - Excerpts: TH, Aga Khans III and IV on tradition and modernity -- Part 2/4: Towards "new understandings of essential principles" ·· PDF
- 2013.01.13 - Excerpts: Their Highnesses the Aga Khans III and IV on Islam's and the Qur'an's assent of freedom of individual interpretation ·· PDF
- 2012.12.29 - Excerpts: His Highness the Aga Khan on knowledge societies: past, present and future ·· PDF
- 2012.10.29 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on Pope Benedict XVI's controversial quote of Emperor Manuel about Prophet Muhammad ·· PDF
- 2012.08.23 - Excerpts - Their Highnesses the Aga Khans III and IV on the veil, headscarf, hijab and purdah ·· PDF
- 2012.08.21 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on knowledge as a key to the dream of renewing Islam to the cutting edge of world progress ·· PDF
- 2012.08.12 - Excerpt - Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III on the historical roots of apathy across Muslim society ·· PDF
- 2012.08.11 - Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III on the final reconciliation between the Shia and Sunni doctrines ·· PDF
- 2012.07.01 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on what Muslim education needs from nursery school to university ·· PDF
- 2012.05.11 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on Islam and perceptions of it today ·· PDF
- 2012.04.02 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on Islam's intellectual legacy and contribution to humanity ·· PDF
- 2012.03.07 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan's 2005 message to The International Islamic Conference in Amman, Jordan ·· PDF
- 2012.02.18 - Excerpts - His Highness the Aga Khan on interpreting the Qur'an ·· PDF
- 2011.01.13 ·· PDF
