At just 20 years old and studying at Harvard, he succeeded his grandfather as the 49th hereditary imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims. Aga Khan IV, who transformed billions of dollars in tithes into ...

The Aga Khan IV has been laid to rest in Egypt in a private ceremony. The governor of Aswan welcomed Prince Karim’s family at the southern Egyptian’s provinces airport ahead of the burial service on ...

“The Imam is dead, long live the Imam ... Amongst the many acts of patronage that marked the age of Aga Khan IV was the creation of the Aga Khan Development Network, described as “the ...

Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini was named the 50th hereditary Imam, or spiritual leader, of Ismaili Muslims on Wednesday after the will of his late father Prince Karim Aga Khan IV was unsealed, the Aga Khan ...

In accordance with Ismaili tradition, whoever serves as Imam guides both the spiritual and material lives of the community. Yet the Aga Khan IV was only 20, an undergraduate at Harvard, when his ...

With the Duke of Edinburgh at Ascot in 2006 Credit: IJO It said: “His Highness Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, Aga Khan IV, 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and direct descendant of ...

Work has resumed on the massive Ismaili Center near Buffalo Bayou after the death of the Aga Khan IV, the leader of the ... the 50th hereditary Imam of a lineage that claimed descent from the ...

ASWAN, Egypt (AP) — The Aga Khan IV was laid to rest on Sunday at a private ceremony in Aswan, Egypt. The death of Prince Karim — the 49th hereditary imam of the Shiite Ismaili Muslims — was ...