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 modernity and tradition ·· PDF
- 2013.05.04 - Excerpts: His Highness the Aga Khan on embracing controversy in the search for new knowledge, truth and creative solutions ·· PDF
- 2013.04.19 - Excerpts: His Highness the Aga Khan on the Imam's authority and discretion in interpreting the Qur'an ·· PDF
- 2013.04.02 - Excerpts: The Prophet and Imamat (pbut) on marriage and children ·· PDF
- 2013.03.27 - Excerpts: His Highness the Aga Khan on why he chose Japanese architects Fumihiko Maki and Arata Isozaki for signature projects ·· PDF
- 2013.03.05 - Excerpt: His Highness the Aga Khan on the 'deconstruction of the cultural inheritance' ·· 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
- 2013.02.06 - Excerpts: His Highness the Aga Khan on tradition and modernity -- Part 3/4: "Progress does not mean occidentalisation" ·· 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
- 2013.02.01 - Excerpts: His Highness the Aga Khan on tradition and modernity -- Part 1/4: "Islam is for all places and all time" ·· PDF
- 2013.01.18 - Excerpts: His Highness the Aga Khan on having 'humility before the Divine' ·· PDF
- 2012.12.21 - Excerpt: His Highness the Aga Khan on the need to revive spiritual traditions as a prerequisite to restoring public integrity ·· PDF
- 2012.10.12 - Excerpts: TH Aga Khans III and IV on interpreting the faith: individuality vs formalistic approaches which anchor faith in time ·· PDF
- 2012.08.23 - Excerpts - Their Highnesses the Aga Khans III and IV on the veil, headscarf, hijab and purdah ·· PDF
- 2012.07.24 - Excerpts - His Highness the Aga Khan's cautionary notes on Western values ·· PDF
- 2012.07.18 - Excerpts: Their Highnesses the Aga Khans III and IV on fasting and Ramadan ·· PDF
- 2012.07.15 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on the notion scientific and technological progress is incompatible with Islam ·· PDF
- 2012.07.06 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on his uncompromising conviction in the compatibility of Islam and society of any time ·· PDF
- 2012.07.03 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on the privileged position in which Islam places an individual, in any society, in any time ·· PDF
- 2012.07.01 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on what Muslim education needs from nursery school to university ·· PDF
- 2012.06.14 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on the responsibility of all decision makers to aspire contemporary Islamic architecture ·· PDF
- 2012.05.23 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on women (2) ·· PDF
- 2012.03.10 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on meritocracy in development ·· PDF
- 2012.03.08 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on the essentials of Islamic architecture ·· PDF
- 2012.03.07 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan's 2005 message to The International Islamic Conference in Amman, Jordan ·· PDF
- 2012.02.28 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on women (1) ·· PDF
- 2012.02.15 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on reconciling tradition and modernity (3) ·· PDF
- 2012.02.12 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on Freedom and License ·· PDF
- 2011.12.30 - Excerpts - His Highness the Aga Khan on reconciling tradition and modernity (2) ·· PDF
- 2011.11.19 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on human relations in the Western world ·· PDF
- 2011.10.14 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on continuity between the past and present ·· PDF
- 2011.09.15b - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on reconciling tradition and modernity (1) ·· PDF
