The Aga Khan serves as both the religious head and temporal leader of the Ismaili community, providing spiritual guidance and overseeing extensive development and humanitarian work across Asia, Africa, and other regions where Ismailis live.
Billionaire philanthropist and spiritual leader Aga Khan has died at the age of 88, his charity the Aga Khan Development Network has announced. Prince Karim Aga Khan was the 49th...
Aga Khan IV was the 49th imam, a spiritual and community leader, of the Nizari Isma‘ili sect.
Considered by followers to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV was a student when his grandfather picked him to lead the Shia Ismaili Muslim...
The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, dies at 88 : NPR
Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, widely known as Aga Khan IV, has passed away at the age of 88 in Lisbon, Portugal. He was a revered spiritual leader of millions of Ismaili Muslims and a prominent philanthropist.
Who was Aga Khan, the billionaire who transformed lives through faith ...
Who was The Aga Khan, spiritual leader and philanthropist, who passed away at 88? A direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, Khan was the founder and chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network.
Who was The Aga Khan, spiritual leader and philanthropist, who passed ...
On 11 July 1957, at the age of 20, he succeeded his grandfather, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan III as the 49th Imam, spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslim community. He led the Ismaili community for 67 years, a period of enormous change.
The honorific Aga Khan (from Agha and Khan) was first given to Hasan Ali Shah (The Aga Khan I) at the age of thirteen when he, as the young Imam, with his mother decided to go to the Qajar court in Tehran to obtain justice upon his father's death and was eventually successful.