The Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi and the Unity of Din and Dunyā

The Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi and the Unity of Din and Dunyā

In 1969, the Aga Khan IV, the forty-ninth hereditary Imam (spiritual and temporal leader) of the global Shiʻi Ismaili Muslim community, selected a “suitable team” to design and construct the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. The buildings began going up in 1971, and the complex was...

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Autor Principal: Ebrahimi, Sara Honarmand
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Idioma:Anglais
Publicado: ABE Journal 2025
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hospital
hospital architecture
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:abe_16699 https://doi.org/10.4000/13939 urn:doi:10.4000/13939 en https://journals.openedition.org/abe/16699 2025-02-05T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/13939 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi and the Unity of Din and Dunyā ABE Journal InVisu info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2275-6639 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/abe Ebrahimi, Sara Honarmand Pakistan Asie Asie du Sud hospital hospital architecture In 1969, the Aga Khan IV, the forty-ninth hereditary Imam (spiritual and temporal leader) of the global Shiʻi Ismaili Muslim community, selected a “suitable team” to design and construct the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. The buildings began going up in 1971, and the complex was completed in 1985. This article situates the design and planning of the University Hospital in the context of 20th-century hospital architecture to explore how it was designed and planned differently from Western models of the period. It shows that the University Hospital was designed to embody the Aga Khan IV’s theological quest for harmony between dīn (faith) and dunyā (world). Understanding and appreciating this theological quest helps going beyond merely adding the University Hospital to the historiography of hospital architecture in the 20th century to discern how it diversifies this historiography. Since the quest for harmony between dīn and dunyā raises the question of whether the Aga Khan IV supported ambitions for Pakistan as an Islamic state, the article also reflects, although briefly, on the place of the University Hospital in ambitions for Pakistan.
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hospital architecture
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hospital architecture
Ebrahimi, Sara Honarmand
The Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi and the Unity of Din and Dunyā
description In 1969, the Aga Khan IV, the forty-ninth hereditary Imam (spiritual and temporal leader) of the global Shiʻi Ismaili Muslim community, selected a “suitable team” to design and construct the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. The buildings began going up in 1971, and the complex was completed in 1985. This article situates the design and planning of the University Hospital in the context of 20th-century hospital architecture to explore how it was designed and planned differently from Western models of the period. It shows that the University Hospital was designed to embody the Aga Khan IV’s theological quest for harmony between dīn (faith) and dunyā (world). Understanding and appreciating this theological quest helps going beyond merely adding the University Hospital to the historiography of hospital architecture in the 20th century to discern how it diversifies this historiography. Since the quest for harmony between dīn and dunyā raises the question of whether the Aga Khan IV supported ambitions for Pakistan as an Islamic state, the article also reflects, although briefly, on the place of the University Hospital in ambitions for Pakistan.
author Ebrahimi, Sara Honarmand
author_facet Ebrahimi, Sara Honarmand
author_sort Ebrahimi, Sara Honarmand
title The Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi and the Unity of Din and Dunyā
title_short The Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi and the Unity of Din and Dunyā
title_full The Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi and the Unity of Din and Dunyā
title_fullStr The Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi and the Unity of Din and Dunyā
title_full_unstemmed The Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi and the Unity of Din and Dunyā
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