“That quest for a better life, among Muslims and non-Muslims alike, must lead inevitably to the Knowledge Society which is developing in our time. The great and central question facing the Ummah of today is how it will relate to the Knowledge Society of tomorrow. If we judge from Islamic history, there is much to encourage us. For century after century, the Arabs, the Persians, the Turks and many other Islamic societies achieved powerful leadership roles in the world—not only politically and economically but also intellectually. Some ill-informed historians and biased commentators have tried to argue that these successes were essentially produced by military power, but this view is profoundly incorrect. The fundamental reason for the pre-eminence of Islamic civilizations lay neither in accidents of history nor in acts of war, but rather in their ability to discover new knowledge, to make it their own, and to build constructively upon it. They became the Knowledge Societies of their time.”
(Aga Khan IV, 2nd December 2006, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan)
http://gonashgo.blogspot.com/2008/09/400blogpost-four-hundred-knowledge.html
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Over the past decades our present Imam and his predecessor Imam have made no secret about their boundless affection for the country of Pakistan. In commemoration of Hazar Imam’s current visit to Pakistan I put together a list of quotes and excerpts above from speeches and interviews made specifically in Pakistan dating from 1950 to the present. These quotes and excerpts are a formidable component of Blogpost Four Hundred, the cardinal post of my Blog on the link between Science and Religion in Islam, dealing specifically with the subjects of Knowledge, Intellect, Creation, Education, Science and Religion.
http://gonashgo.blogspot.com/2008/09/400blogpost-four-hundred-knowledge.html
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