• Visitors take in an exhibition on Nasir’s Ethics, a manuscript in the Aga Khan Museum collection.
    20 February 2014 | Ismaili Centre Vancouver

    Enlightened Encounters offers a peak at the Aga Khan Museum

    Visitors take in an exhibition on Nasir’s Ethics, a manuscript in the Aga Khan Museum collection. Hakam Bhaloo
10:00 AM
5 July 2014
9:45 AM
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The Ismaili Centre Burnaby
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21 February 2014 — The Aga Khan Museum brought their Enlightened Encounters initiative to the Ismaili Centre, Burnaby. Reflecting the diversity of the Museum's programmes, the event offered insight into the range of programming that will take place at the Toronto-based Museum when it opens later this year.
Aga Khan Museum Director and CEO Henry S. Kim introduced the event, and Amirali Alibhai, Head of Performing Arts, spoke about the Museum’s unique Performing Arts programme. The talks were followed with a performance by renowned sitar player Mohamed Assani.
 
A small exhibition focused on Nasir's Ethics, a manuscript in the Museum’s collection that was copied in the court workshops of the Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great around 1590. The exhibition examined the practical philosophy of the document, which addresses a broad range of concepts, from justice and love, to ideas about educating children and good government.