''THE instability that we see around the world, from Afghanistan to Central Europe, is a consequence of the rejection of cultural pluralism,'' said the Aga Khan, a man who knows a great deal about cultural pluralism.
He blames that rejection on the enormous gulf of knowledge between the Islamic and the non-Islamic world, a situation that, he said, leaves him deeply saddened.
It is late September, and the Aga Khan is speaking to an interviewer in a Boston hotel suite, where he has come to introduce the latest brainchild of one of his favorite causes. Called ArchNet, a collaboration among the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it is billed as the world's largest online resource for the study of Islamic architecture, urban planning and landscape design.
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