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“Confronting the knowledge deficit which now plagues too many Islamic societies” - Cairo, Egypt, 15 June 2006

from Gems of Wisdom · host The Ismaili

In recent decades, new technologies have caused agricultural and industrial societies to be replaced by what has been called the knowledge society. The Aga Khan discussed how Muslim societies can reclaim their position as knowledge societies of the future in this speech at the American University in Cairo on 15 June 2006 in Cairo, Egypt. Click here to read the speech.

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