The symbol of the Aga Khan Education Services is based on the form of an open book containing a double image of the word IQRA (to read) from the first revelation of Allah to Prophet Muhammad (Sura 96 : Verses 1-5 of the Holy Quran).
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”But in the rapidly globalizing world of the 21st century, the progress of every country and continent will depend on its ability to meet universal standards. To settle for less is an increasingly dangerous option,” he said.
The emphasis on quality and excellence has been a recurring theme of the Aga Khan’s visit to East Africa which was punctuated by announcements of new quality educational institutions. Earlier on Wednesday in Kampala, the Ismaili leader presided over a foundation stone laying ceremony for a new Aga Khan Academy in Kampala that will provide quality education for exceptionally gifted children.
AKDN Press Releases,Kampala,Uganda, 24 August 2007
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It was just one month ago that I celebrated my 50th year as Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims. We are marking that occasion with a series of visits to places where our community has been most deeply rooted. This visit to East Africa is the first of those tours – and that is most appropriate, given Nairobi’s central role both in our community life and in so many activities of the Aga Khan Development Network – including, of course, the educational work of the Aga Khan University.
A golden jubilee is a valuable opportunity for putting the present into historical perspective. In that spirit, I would begin today by emphasizing how my concern for education grows intimately out of my family history. It was just a century ago that my late Grandfather, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan, began to build a network of educational institutions which would eventually include some 300 schools, many of them in East Africa.
My late Grandfather, who was also the founding figure of Aligarh University in India, was renewing a tradition which stretches back over 1000 years, to our forefathers, the Fatimid Imam-Caliphs of Egypt, who founded Al-Azhar University and the Academy of Knowledge in Cairo. And going back even further, I would cite the words of the first hereditary Imam of the Shia Muslims, Hazrat Ali Ibn Abi Talib, who emphasized in his teachings that “No honour is like knowledge.”
Those words have inspired an emphasis on education within our tradition ever since that time. That tradition has been expressed in recent decades in many ways, ranging from the sponsorship of Madrasa early childhood projects to the founding of the Aga Khan University and the University of Central Asia. We are also establishing a new network of Aga Khan Academies – outstanding residential primary and secondary schools – teaching the International Baccalaureate and covering no less than 14 countries in Africa and Asia. The first of these is already functioning in Mombasa – I will visit there tomorrow to launch the building of its new residential campus.
AKDN Press Centre – Nairobi, Kenya,13 August 2007
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With the blessings of our beloved M H Imama all youngster come to gether on one platform and make a prog as per advice of our Imama and throw the light of knoledge everywhere and be united and help eachother for rgress, prosperity and Mushkeel Assan. Asmin. Uncle Jusabali Lakhani.
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