"The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West... The two worlds, Muslim and non-Muslim, Eastern and Western, must, as a matter of urgency, make a real effort to get to know one another, for I fear that what we have is not a clash of civilisations, but a clash of ignorance on both sides."

Source : Speech at the "Musée-Musées" Round Table Louvre Museum, www.akdn.org. October 17, 2007.

Aga Khan IV

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