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Aga Khan IV skiing for Iran at the 1964 Winter Olympics. Aga Khan IV was born in Geneva, Switzerland, on 13 December 1936, as Prince Karim, the eldest son of Prince Aly Khan (1911–1960) and his first wife, Princess Taj-ud-dawlah Aga Khan, formerly Joan Yarde-Buller (1908–1997).
The Noorani family is a term used to refer to the immediate family of the Imām of the Nizari Ismāʿīli Shia Muslims, commonly known by the title of Aga Khan. [1] By convention and custom its members and descendants in the male line are titled Prince and Princess, and as such it can be regarded as a royal family, although only the Aga Khan himself, as its head, is entitled to be referred to ...
According to Farhad Daftary, [6] a scholar of the Isma'ili movement, Aga Khan [7] [8] is an honorific title bestowed on Hasan Ali Shah (1804–1881), the 46th Imām of Nizari Ismai'lis (1817–1881), by the Iranian king Fath-Ali Shah Qajar. [9] The Aga Khan III noted in a famous legal proceeding in India that Aga Khan is not a title but instead ...
Prince Rahim al-Hussaini, left, Aga Khan V, attends the burial of his father Aga Khan IV, the 49th imam and spiritual leader of Shia Ismaili Muslims, in Egypt's southern city of Aswan on February ...
Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV and 49th hereditary imam of the Shiite Ismaili Muslims, died at his home in Lisbon, Portugal on Tuesday. He was 88 years old.
The late Prince Karim Al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV, who died on Tuesday in Lisbon after nearly seven decades as the spiritual leader of the global Ismaili Muslim community, will be buried in Egypt on ...
Aqa Ali Shah Aga Khan II or Shah Ali Shah (lived 1830–1885; reigned 1881–1885) Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III (lived 1877–1957; reigned 1885–1957) Shah Karim al-Husayni Aga Khan IV (lived 1936–2025; reigned 1957–2025) Rahim al-Hussaini Aga Khan V (1971–; reign 2025–present)
Born on Oct. 12, 1971, the U.S.-educated, Swiss-based Rahim is the eldest son of the Aga Khan IV and his first wife, Princess Salimah - née Sarah Croker Poole, a British ex-model. The couple had ...