“The Cosmopolitan Ethic in a Fragmented World”
Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim
Mark Elliott, Vice ProvostMichele Lamont, Director of the Weatherhead Center for International AffairsAli Asani, Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative ReligionMembers of the Harvard Community Distinguished Guests
Thank you for your warm welcome.
It is indeed a great pleasure for me to return to Harvard and this wonderful campus. And it is a particular pleasure to be welcomed here by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program — two of the world’s leading forces for informed global understanding.
I am honored as well, to be giving the Jodidi Lecture for 2015, and to join the distinguished list of those who have given this lecture over the past 60 years. Believe it or not, the Jodidi Lecture actually was founded during my freshman year at Harvard — but I had nothing to do with that! I would note too, that the Harvard Center for International Affairs was also founded while I was a student here, although it did not yet have the illustrious Weatherhead name.
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