Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini has been named the new Aga Khan, spiritual leader of millions of Shia Ismaili Muslims around the world. He will take on the role from his father Prince Karim Aga Khan, who ...

Half-British prince Rahim al-Hussaini has been named the new Aga Khan, becoming the spiritual leader of the world’s Ismaili Muslims and taking over a philanthropic empire worth $13 billion.

Considered by followers to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV was a student when his grandfather picked him to lead the Shia Ismaili Muslim diaspora.

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 ...

Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini has been named the new Aga Khan, succeeding his late father, Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, as the spiritual leader of millions of Ismaili Muslims worldwide.

At the age of 20, Prince Karim Al-Hussaini inherited the reins of a Shia Muslim lineage and used his entrepreneurship to become one of the world’s richest hereditary rulers.

Prince Karim Al-Hussaini became the Aga Khan IV and 49th hereditary iman in his family's 1,300-year-old dynasty when he was a 20-year-old student at Harvard. His grandfather, the Aga Khan III ...

Prince Karim Al-Hussaini was the Aga Khan IV and 49th hereditary imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims.

His Highness Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV and 49th hereditary imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and a renowned philanthropist, has died at 88.

His Highness Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV and 49th hereditary imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and a renowned philanthropist, has died at 88.