The Aga Khan’s grandfather, Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan III, was the first President of the All India Muslim League and a vigorous advocate of the Muslim cause during the British Raj. However, many of us may not be too familiar with how these development endeavours are grounded in the Aga Khan’s mandate as the Imam. Aga Khan arrives todayIn a 2006 speech, the Aga Khan noted: “I am fascinated and somewhat frustrated when representatives of the Western world… try to describe the work of our Aga Khan Development Network… either as philanthropy or entrepreneurship. While this manifests itself in many aspects of the Aga Khan’s work, his views on education are particularly salient in today’s context. The Aga Khan’s framing of education provides one such alternative way of conceptualising the purpose of education.

Source: The Express Tribune December 08, 2017 05:15 UTC