Ali LakhaniM. Ali Lakhani was born in England. He read law at Cambridge, both as an undergraduate and post- graduate. A senior barrister, he has practiced law in Vancouver for over 40 years at all levels, including at the Supreme Court of Canada, and, in recogntion of his abilities, in 2015 he was appointed as Queen's Counsel. In 1998, he founded the bi-annual book-form journal, Sacred Web, which applies traditional principles to issues of modernity. Now in its 46th edition, and having garnered praise from writers as diverse as Prince Charles, the Dalai Lama, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Huston Smith, and Karen Armstrong, Sacred Web is the leading journal in its field. Mr. Lakhani has lectured at several universities on the topics of metaphysics and Islam, and his essays and articles have been anthologized in several international journals.In 2001, Mr. Lakhani's essay on Imam Ali received the First Prize at the Imam Ali International Conference in Iran. Dr. Nasr has cited that essay, along with the second prize-winning essay by Dr. Reza Shah- Kazemi, to be "among the best writings on this extraordinary figure in Western languages and ... obligatory reading for anyone interested in (Imam) Ali". Those essays are included in the anthology, The Sacred Foundations of Justice in Islam, published in 2006. A collection of Mr. Lakhani's essays was published by World Wisdom Books in 2010 under the title, The Timeless Relevance of Traditional Wisdom. In 2015, the Institute of Ismaili Studies commissioned Mr. Lakhani to write about the ethical vision of His Highness the Aga Khan. That book, Faith and Ethics, published by the IIS and IB Tauris in December 2017, is the first extensive survey of the Imam's ideas and was released on the occasion of the Imam's Diamond Jubilee. Mr. Lakhani has also lectured on the Aga Khan's ideas for the Temenos Academy at the Royal Asiatic Society in London, England, and has written about His Highness's ideas for the Doha International Centre in Qatar. Read More Read Less