Prince Rahim al-Hussaini, a son of the Aga Khan IV, was named as his successor on Wednesday, inheriting the role of spiritual leader of millions of Ismaili Muslims around the world.. Rahim, 53 ...

Throughout his life the Aga Khan’s pastoral letters to his flocks were full of good, sound and fatherly advice. The ancient Moslem tradition of tossing a coin to the leprous beggar in the square ...

Rahim becomes Aga Khan V following the death of his father, Karim al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV, in Lisbon aged 88, earlier this month.Ismaili Muslims are a sect within Shia Islam with a distinct ...

(The Conversation) — Aga Khan, the religious leader of the Ismailis – a sect of Islam – established the Aga Khan Foundation in 1967. It has served millions around the world since then.

The Aga Khan's first marriage was to a British woman, Sarah Croker Poole, who converted to Islam, changed her name to Salimah Aga Khan, and assumed an aristocratic title of begum upon her marriage.

The Aga Khan’s son, Prince Rahim al-Hussaini, was named the Aga Khan V as the new leader of Ismaili Muslims, a branch of Shiite Islam with about 15 million followers concentrated in Central Asia ...

People carry the coffin of Prince Karim al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV and 49th hereditary imam of the Shiite Ismaili Muslims, who died Feb. 4 in Portugal, to be buried at the Aga Khan mausoleum, in ...

Following the death of his father the Aga Khan IV, Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini has been announced as the new Aga Khan—the spiritual leader of the world’s Ismaili Muslims, a branch of Shia Islam.

The Aga Khan, imam of the Ismaili Muslims and head of a major development aid network, has died in Lisbon at the age of 88, his foundation announced on Wednesday.He was the founder and president of ...

The Tuesday death of the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims, and the Wednesday announcement of his successor struck a deep chord with Houston’s sizable ...

The Aga Khan IV, who as the leader of the world’s Ismaili Muslims fused entrepreneurship and philanthropy in becoming one of the world’s wealthiest hereditary rulers, died on Tuesday at his ...