Home Religion speed read The Aga Khan, billionaire spiritual leader, dies at 88 Prince Karim Al-Hussaini's philanthropy funded hospitals, housing and schools in some of the world's poorest places ...

His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, who has died aged 88, combined his role as 49th Imam and spiritual leader of 12-15 million Ismailis – a mystical sect of Shia Islam – in more than 25 ...

The Ismaili community’s website said he was born on Dec. 13, 1936, in Creux-de-Genthod, near Geneva, the son of Joan Yarde-Buller and Aly Khan, and spent part of his childhood in Nairobi, Kenya ...

What happened The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world's 15 million Ismaili Muslims and one of the world's wealthiest hereditary heirs, died Tuesday in Portugal. He was 88 and had led the ...