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 ...

A global jamaat Prince Karim, known to his followers as ‘his highness,’ or the more reverential ‘Mowlana Hazir Imam’, continued the mission of his grandfather Aga Khan III of equipping his ...

Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV, died on February 4 in Lisbon, Portugal at age 88. As founder and chairman of the Aga Khan ...

The Aga Khan was given the title of “His Highness” by Queen Elizabeth in July 1957, two weeks after his grandfather the Aga ...

With his assumption of the leadership as 49th imam of Ismaili Muslims in 1957, the Aga Khan IV took the reins of a Shia Muslim lineage that claimed descent from the Prophet Muhammad and imposed ...

The new imam was named in the will, unsealed on Wednesday, of his father, Karim al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV, who died at age 88 on Tuesday. Through the Aga Khan Development Network, founded by ...

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 announced Tuesday by ...

Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, Aga Khan IV, was regarded as a direct descendent of the Prophet Mohammed, given nearly divine status as the 49th hereditary imam of the Ismaili sect of Shia Islam.

LISBON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The late Prince Karim Al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV, who died on Tuesday in Lisbon ... Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini was named the 50th hereditary Imam, or spiritual leader, on ...

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 ...