Aga Khan IV, the spiritual leader of millions of Ismaili Muslims worldwide, has passed away at the age of 88. The Aga Khan ...

The Aga Khan, who served as the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims since he turned 20, has died. He ...

Shah Karim, the 49th Imam in the lineage, took his title as Aga Khan in 1957, when he was 20, after the death of his grandfather. The Aga Khan IV, who headed the Aga Khan Development Network ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A burial service for Aga Khan IV, the 49th hereditary imam of the ...

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 ...

Prince Karim Aga Khan IV will be laid to rest on Sunday (today), at a private burial ceremony in Aswan, Egypt. He will be ...

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 ...

This act of allegiance reaffirmed the continuity of the centuries-old hereditary Imamat that traces its lineage to Hazrat Mawlana Ali (peace be upon him), the first Imam of the Shia tradition.

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 ...

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.

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 Development Network confirmed the prince’s passing just after 4 p.m. on Tuesday in a statement shared to social ...