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Prince Shah Karim Al Hussaini, Aga Khan IV, KBE, CC (Arabic: شاه كريم الحسيني، الآغاخان الرابع‎; Persian: شاه کریم حسینی، آقاخان چهارم‬‎; Urdu: شاه کریم حسینی، آغاخان چهارم‬‎; Aga Khan is also transliterated as Aqa Khan and Agha Khan; born 13 December 1936) is the 49th and current Imam of Nizari Ismailism, a denomination of Isma'ilism within Shia Islam consisting of an estimated 25 million adherents (12—16% of the world's Shia Muslim population). The Aga Khan is a business magnate with British citizenship, as well as a racehorse owner and breeder. He has held this position of Imam, under the title of Aga Khan IV, since 11 July 1957, when, at the age of 20, he succeeded his grandfather, Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III. It is believed that the Aga Khan is a direct lineal descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law, Ali, considered the first Imam in Shia Islam, and Ali's wife Fatima az-Zahra, Muhammad's daughter from his first marriage. In 1986 the Aga Khan ordained the current version of the Ismailia Constitution – an ecclesiastical decree affirming to Nizari Ismailis his "sole right to interpret the Qur'an and provide authoritative guidance on [all] matters of faith" and formalising his sole discretion, power and authority for the governance of Nizari Ismaili jamats (places of worship) and institutions.

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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. . . The 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.

Real, Ignorance, Two, History, Different, Sides

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

Bridge, Bridges, Future, Home, Poverty, Terrible

None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.

Country, Religious, Issues, Populations, History

The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.

Human, Humans, Motivation, Powerful, Right

There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.

Appears, Degradation, Momentum, Relation, Religions, Towards

Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.

Asset, Development, Pluralism Is, Prerequisite, Progress

We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity

Democracy, Diversity, Make, World

The Aga Khan Awards for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.

Awards, Bring, Contexts, Life, Mean, Trying

Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. 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.

Religious, Agree Upon, Space, Search, Conflict, Governance

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.

Capacity, Ethic, Ethics, Islamic, Moral, Responsibility

Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.

Creation, Emphasis, God, Islam, Purpose

Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world's peoples.

Diversity, Enlightened, Government, Pluralist, Societies, World

Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples

Commitment, Years, Pluralism Is, Rest, Support

The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.

Spiritual, Welfare, Pope, Concerned, Flock

If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.

Born, Generosity, Half, Powerful, Progress, Replacement

My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. 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. 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.

Art, Book, Past, Strengths, Read, Impressed

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.

Avoid, Big, Looks, Syndrome, Together, Trying