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Ismaili Recipes - This blog contains our family recipes; mainly it is Ismaili (Khoja) cuisine, our family lived in Uganda for 3 generations so we have a marked East African(Swahili, Lugandi) Influence in our cooking AND in our language!! (Kutchi / Cutchi / Gujarati. In recent years with new additions to the family our cooking includes, English, Pakistani, Italian and Irish influences.

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Ismaili Marathon Gallary-Mumbai India 2009

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Ismaili Marathon 2009 - Mumbai,India

Youth Board Marathon 2009 - India Mumbai


Organisor- AKYSB,INDIA
Start Time: 22 February at 06:00
End Time: 22 February at 10:30
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The Legacy of Islam -Amaana.org

The Legacy of Islam

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The commemoration of Mawlana Hazar Imam’s Golden Jubilee was an opportunity for Ismaili Muslims to come together in the spirit of voluntary service and contribute to the wellbeing of the communities where they reside. This was one of the underlying objectives of the CIVIC programme in Canada.
CIVIC — Challenging Ismaili Volunteers in Communities — was an initiative to engage Jamati youth aged 13 – 25. It appealed to the social conscience of young Ismailis by inviting them to give back to their local communities through voluntary service.
Young Ismailis in Quebec take a break from cleaning during their CIVIC school beautification project. Photo: Sheny Jaffer
On designated CIVIC days across the country, more than 1 100 participants came together in their respective regions and contributed over 4 400 hours of voluntary service to designated projects. Community partners including mayors, municipal councillors, non-profit organisations, and other community representatives were present to support and acknowledge the work of the CIVIC teams and contributions they were making to society.
The ethic of voluntary service is a long-held tradition in the Jamat and pervades all aspects of life within the community. It has historically been a corner-stone of the value-system shared by Ismaili Muslims around the world. While CIVIC afforded an opportunity for members of the Jamat to collectively engage the broader community through service, the ethic of social consciousness inspires the engagement of the institutions of the Ismaili Imamat — notably the Imamat’s non-denominational arm, the Aga Khan Development Network — in a multi-dimensional effort that promotes human development for the benefit of people irrespective of their faith and origin. A pillar of this engagement is the Jamat’s tradition of offering contributions of time, knowledge and material resources.
The objectives of the programme were to allow youth to employ their time, skills and knowledge to stimulate positive changes, to build relationships with each other and the wider community and to commemorate the Golden Jubilee in a way that will benefit the social, cultural and economic development in Canada.
“Seeing more than 250 youth working hard was the most valuable experience,” says Shafina Jamal, a young professional and CIVIC participant from Edmonton. “The atmosphere was electric.”
The tremendous efforts of youth teams across Canada resulted in some impressive achievements. In British Columbia, teams planted 50 fruit trees to symbolise 50 years of Hazar Imam’s Imamat. The trees will produce approximately one tonne of fruit that well be donated to shelters in downtown Vancouver. In the Prairies, CIVIC groups sorted through 350 bags of clothing that had been donated at the Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre. In Ontario, a half-tonne of garbage was collected from a city park, and in Quebec, youth worked to beautify eight schools, helping create a clean environment for students and staff.
Edmonton youth pose outside one of the sheds they built in partnership with Habitat for Humanity. Photo: Firozali Musani
After a year of careful planning, CIVIC Edmonton emerged as an example of a sustainable partnership among communities. Launched as a programme to build 20 sheds for Habitat for Humanity, the Edmonton initiative joined forces with the city’s Capital City Clean Up programme. Edmonton’s Ismaili youth worked alongside volunteers from the Sri Lankan and Punjabi communities to remove graffiti while raising funds for their shed project.
“The sheds are going to the neediest families in Edmonton,” noted Jamal, who served as a shed leader. “Poverty can be eliminated if we work together to help one family at a time.” In building the sheds and contributing to the clean up and revitalisation of the city's downtown core, CIVIC Edmonton grew into a multi-faceted civic engagement project and is working towards future activities.
Tameezan Mawani, the national project manager for CIVIC, said that “we wanted to create an education programme rooted in the work of Mawlana Hazar Imam’s Institutions.” CIVIC's choice of activities was based on the ethical framework of the Aga Khan Development Network. By building local shelters, and cleaning city parks, participants contributed to environmental care, humanitarian assistance and poverty alleviation — all ethical imperatives that underpin the AKDN institutions.
Over the past four decades, Canada has welcomed Ismailis from around the world. CIVIC, Mawani points out, is one way in which the Canadian Jamat can give back to their country. It provided an opportunity for leaders of tomorrow to cultivate the spirit of voluntary service in the Jamat, and apply it in the broader context of Canadian civil society: “We hope that CIVIC will extend beyond the community and foster relationships with our fellow Canadians.”


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IIS Publishes Work on Khutbas of Fatimid CaliphsFebruary 2009

The latest IIS publication, Orations of the Fatimid Caliphs: Festival Sermons of the Ismaili Imams by Paul Walker, is the tenth publication in the Ismaili Texts and Translations Series. The book presents texts of several sermons (khutbas) from the Fatimid period, in Arabic and in English translation. Covering a period of about 100 years, these texts provide unique access to a key component of Fatimid public discourse.
Contextualising the khutbas, the first two chapters of the book present the history of the Fatimid khutbas along with an insightful examination of their themes and rhetorical strategies. The Friday sermons in the medieval period of Muslim history usually indicated the political allegiance of the people. It was customary to mention in the khutbas the name of the ruling sovereign or the dynasty. Highlighting this importance of the sermons, the book begins with an account of the ‘Uqaylid ruler of north Mesopotamia, Qirwash b. al-Muqallad, announcing the transfer of his allegiance from the ‘Abbasid to the Fatimid caliph, by way of the Friday khutba. Within this discussion of the general importance of sermons, the author discusses the sermons of the Fatimid caliphs. These were typically delivered twice a year on the occasion of the two Muslim ‘Id festivals. In the later Fatimid era, some of the Friday sermons during the month of Ramadan were also delivered by the caliph in specific mosques across the Fatimid territories.
The varied religious affiliations of the populace in the Fatimid dominion meant that the caliphs took particular care to ensure that their khutbas could be understood by a broad audience. Language was thus critical in communicating political and religious ideas. The sermons usually followed a set pattern consisting of invocation to God, often using Qur’anic verses, praise and prayers for Prophet Muhammad, the reaffirmation of Fatimid lineage of the caliph to the Prophet through Imam Ali and Fatima al-Zahra, the Prophet’s daughter, and praise for succeeding imams. The sermons often included condemnation of the enemies of the Fatimids with prayers for God’s support to defeat them.
In this way, the sermons provide significant insights into the nature of the wider socio-political context in which the Fatimids ruled. The sermons also contain several references to matters related to governance such as taxes, war and rights and duties of the sovereign. Moral advice formed yet another part of several khutbas. Often historical narratives, such as the struggles of the Prophet, were employed to illuminate the challenges the caliphs faced in their own times.
This book will be very useful for those interested in the history and traditions of the Fatimids. It provides interesting examples of imperial rhetoric as well as of public political discourse in a medieval Muslim context.

Source: http://www.iis.ac.uk/

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Focus Humanitarian Assistance

Introduction

Founded in 1994 by the Ismaili Muslim community under the guidance of His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, FOCUS has offices in Europe, North America, South and Central Asia.

FOCUS is affiliated with the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a group of private, non-denominational agencies working to improve living conditions and opportunities for people in specific regions of the developing world. This affiliation enables a smooth transition from disaster assistance to long-term development.

FOCUS also works with numerous like-minded agencies and donor partners, including government, multi-lateral and bi-lateral agencies, as well as corporations that share an interest in helping affected communities reduce their dependence on humanitarian assistance and facilitating the transition to self-reliance. Please see our Partners page for a list for partners.

FOCUS’ expertise ranges from providing relief and assistance following landslides, earthquakes, cyclones, floods and disease epidemics. It has also undertaken successful resettlement programmes for displaced families and extended relief and recovery support for communities making the transition to development.

In addition, FOCUS has a over a decade’s expertise in fostering disaster-resilient communities and developing methods and training for disaster risk management - from natural hazard risk assessment to mitigation and preparedness - in some of the world’s most challenging terrain, including the mountains of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan and the coastal plains of the Indian subcontinent.

Over the last decade, FOCUS has been working in Afghanistan, East Timor, India, Mozambique, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Zanzibar.

Some of FOCUS’ recent endeavors include:

• South Asia Earthquake: Responding to emergency needs, providing shelter, food and medicines to isolated and vulnerable communities affected by the earthquake in both Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir
• USA - Hurricane Rita and Katrina: Assisting in the relief efforts providing medical aid, clothing and facilitating access to state services
• Indian Ocean Tsunami: Providing relief and recovery programmes to communities affected by the 2004 tsunami in Andhra Pradesh, India
• Afghanistan: Providing emergency relief in transit camps and, later, assisting returnees from Pakistan secure shelter and means of earning a livelihood
• Tajikistan: Undertaking detailed hazard vulnerability assessments and natural hazard mitigation projects
• Pakistan: Establishing Community Emergency Response Teams, training volunteers in disaster risk management and establishing community stockpiles
• Afghanistan: Delivering food aid programmes in Afghanistan which combined food aid with the rehabilitation of schools, infrastructure and healthclinics
• Madagascar: Providing assistance to communities when it was hit by a severe cyclone
• Mozambique: Delivering emergency humanitarian aid following severe flooding to over 30,000 refugees by supplying food, medicines, boats and essential commodities

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Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance (AKAM)

Introduction

Since its establishment in 2005, the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance (AKAM) has taken over 25 years of microfinance activities, programmes and banks that were administered by sister agencies within the Aga Khan Development Network. The underlying objectives of the Agency are to reduce poverty, diminish the vulnerability of poor populations and alleviate economic and social exclusion.

AKAM is a not-for-profit, non-denominational, international development agency created under Swiss law. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. It is governed by an independent Board of Directors. The Chairman of the Board is His Highness the Aga Khan.

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Hafiz and the Place of Iranian Culture in the World-Amaana.org

Inaugural Lecture Before the Iran Society
November 9, 1936 London, United Kingdom

By Sir Sultan Mahomad Shah Aga Khan III

I must thank His Excellency the Iranian Minister, Lord Lamington and the members of the Society for having done me the honour of inviting me tonight to bring before you the importance to the whole world of those spiritual forces that the ancient land of Iran has cherished in her modern history. Before I go further I want to define clearly what I mean by "spiritual forces" – I do not use this term in any question-begging sense. I do not wish to limit it merely to religious or such ideas, or to give it any otherworldly interpretation, but I do mean anything that deals with man’s life of the spirit here and now on this earth and in this life. Whatever may or may not be the soul’s future, there is one impregnable central fact in existence: that here and now, in this world, we have a soul which has a life of its own in its appreciation of truth, beauty, harmony and good against evil. Has modern Iran greatly contributed to the perfectioning of the soul of man thus understood? Modern Iran I define as the ancient race of that high plateau, influenced by the faith of Islam and the imaginative poetry and declamation of Arabia, welded into one by a process of slow intermarriage and movement of many races from north, west, east and south. What has this Iran done for the satisfaction of man’s highest aspirations?

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• Donation of 100 wheelchairs to benefit the infirm in Singapore - Feb 9, 2009
• Canadian Jamat jubilant over visit - Feb 6, 2009
• Engaging discussion on modernity accompanies launch of new book - Feb 3, 2009
• Expressions of Love and Devotion: A Golden Jubilee project - Feb 1, 2009
• Graduates of IIS programme carve out dynamic career paths - Jan 30, 2009

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IIS Co-sponsors Workshop in Chicago on TafsirsJanuary 2009

The IIS co-sponsored a workshop, held in conjunction with the American Academy of Religion (AAR), in Chicago, Illinois, in late October 2008. The workshop, a series of round-table discussions, focused on the subject of commentaries on the Qur’an. It brought together experts in the field of Qur’an commentaries with an audience of interested scholars.
It was the first time that the Institute has collaborated on such a programme with a working group from the AAR, which is the major international organisation for scholars of religion. The workshop was co-sponsored by the AAR’s Qur’an group. This event highlighted the increasing scholarly interest in Qur’an commentaries, and the critical importance of the work being undertaken by the IIS in the area of Qur’anic studies.


The workshop’s participants included pre-eminent scholars of Qur’an commentaries, such as Jane Dammen McAuliffe (president of Bryn Mawr College) and Andrew Rippin (Dean, University of Victoria). The event was well attended, with an audience of 60 scholars from institutions around the United States and Canada. It was organised by Karen Bauer, who is a Research Associate at the IIS.



The discussions highlighted questions central to the study of Qur’an commentaries, such as classifications within the genre of tafsir, and the meanings of the words “esoteric” and “exoteric” when used in the context of these works. In the future, it is hoped that the same group of experts will meet again to discuss the fine details of their papers, which will then be included in an edited volume.


The workshop was followed by a formal dinner attended by nearly 100 guests, including most of the speakers and audience from the workshop as well as experts in Islamic Studies, and members of the local Ismaili community. Azim Nanji, former Director of the IIS, delivered remarks, as did Omar Ali-de-Unzaga, Coordinator of Qur’anic Studies at the IIS. For more information about the Qur’an Commentaries workshop and its participants, please see http://www.iis.ac.uk/tafsirconference


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Kenya launches commemorative Golden Jubilee stamps

The Postmaster General of the Postal Corporation of Kenya, Mr Fred Odhiambo, Vice-President of the Ismaili Council for Kenya, Mr Anwar Hajee, and the Regional CEO of the Aga Khan Foundation, Mr. Arif Neky, at the launch function. Photo: Courtesy of the Ismaili Council for Kenya
On the occasion of the culmination of Mawlana Hazar Imam’s Golden Jubilee, the Ismaili Council for Kenya, together with the Postal Corporation of Kenya, officially launched a series of four commemorative stamps to recognise this historic period and acknowledge the work of the Aga Khan Development Network in the country.
In a colourful ceremony on 13 December 2008, attended by Jamati and AKDN leaders, donors and partners in development, the stamps were unveiled by the Postmaster General of the Postal Corporation of Kenya, Mr Fred Odhiambo, and the Vice President of the Ismaili Council for Kenya, Mr Anwar Hajee.
The stamps depict four of the AKDN’s major Kenyan and regional initiatives — the Aga Khan University Hospital, the Aga Khan Academy, and the Aga Khan Foundation’s Madrasa Preschool Programme and Coastal Rural Support Programme. The issue has four stamps in denominations of KShs 25, 65, 75 and 95.
The four stamps depict important initiatives of the Aga Khan Development Network in Kenya and the East African region. Photo: Courtesy of the Ismaili Council for Kenya
The Postmaster General of the Postal Corporation of Kenya, Mr Fred Odhiambo, Vice-President of the Ismaili Council for Kenya, Mr Anwar Hajee, and the Regional CEO of the Aga Khan Foundation, Mr. Arif Neky, at the launch function. Photo: Courtesy of the Ismaili Council for Kenya
“Today marks a special and proud day for the Ismaili Muslim community,” remarked Vice-President Hajee during the launch ceremony. “Just as the Postal Corporation of Kenya enables large numbers of peoples in different lands, and of different cultures, to communicate with each other, promoting the sharing ideas and ideals, visions and aspirations, so too, with the launch of these stamps today, we hope that in a small but significant way, they will also lead to a better understanding amongst Kenyans, and indeed people around the world, of the work of the AKDN, and will promote the principles upon which the Network operates; those of pluralism, peace, acceptance, generosity, collaboration, and the spirit of partnership.”
Following the launch, guests admire the First Day Covers of the commemorative stamps. Photo: Courtesy of the Ismaili Council for Kenya
The Postmaster General noted that Mawlana Hazar Imam’s Golden Jubilee “holds significance not only for the Ismaili Muslim community, but also for Kenyans as a whole, as we acknowledge his great contribution to the socio-economic well being of our people.” He added that “the Postal Corporation of Kenya is proud to have been given the opportunity to spread the message on the contributions of the Aga Khan Development

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