Update: Lecture will be broadcast live on the internet. Click here for more information.
The LaFontaine-Baldwin Symposium is a Canadian forum created through the joint effort of John Ralston Saul and the Dominion Institute. Founded in 2000, the Symposium’s purpose is to stimulate debate about the historical antecedents and future shape of the Canadian democracy.
The 10th annual LaFontaine-Baldwin Symposium will be held on October 15, 2010. The lecture will be presented at The Royal Conservatory’s Koerner Hall at the TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning.
http://www.icc-icc.ca/en/projects/symposium.php
http://archive.gg.ca/gg/fgg/bios/03/jrs-03_e.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaFontaine-Baldwin_Symposium
The landmark speaker in this year’s series of lectures and master classes will be the Aga Khan, who will deliver the LaFontaine-Baldwin Lecture in October, presented by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship.
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THIS SYMPOSIUM IS A MUST TO GO FOR ALL ISMAILIES , TO HEAR THEIR SPIRITUAL LEADER GIVE A LECTURE ON CANADIAN FUTURE.
NAZIM MURJI…..
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How fitting that the Aga Khan (written for the general public) has been invited to give the tenth LaFontaine-Baldwin memorial lecture in just his first year as an honorary citizen of Canada! This is an opportunity to extol the principles of tolerance and compromise the founding duo relentlessly espoused for Canada at time when intolerance of minorities and disregard for people’s rights are resurgent. Muslims and Islam are attacked with impunity. The Aga Khan’s 37th predecessor, the 12th Imam al-Mahdi, founded the Fatimid empire in north Africa in the tenth century and for 200 years that empire was the beacon of a merit-based government, with power-sharing amongst Sunnis, Jews and Christians. From the seventh to the fifteenth century was the golden age of Islam when science and jurisprudence flourished when Europe was still in the dark ages. Names of al-Hytham in optics, Avicenna in medicine, and Ibn Khaldun in social sciences come to mind. Their work gave rise to no less that the modern scientific method based on repeatable experiments and peer-reviewed treatises. Prototypes of modern scientific institutions were created – the first public hospital, in Baghdad, no less; the first public library; the first academic-degree granting university, the glorious Al-Azhar in al-Qahira (Cairo), named after Fatima az-Zahra, the beloved daughter of Prophet Mohammed through whom the Aga Khan documents his descent to the prophet. The Aga Khan could underline that the only cause for Muslim discontent is the conflict in the Holy Land and his prayers are for the two leaders.
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