Laleh Khalili teaches at the University of Exeter. Her books include Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula, Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of ...

Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, Aga Khan IV, the 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, passed away on February 4 at the age of 88 in Lisbon, surrounded by his family.

Aged three, Princess Gayatri Devi snuck out of her family’s home in Knightsbridge to spend their fortune in Harrods on an entire bathtub full of toys. Later, she would escape the watchful eye of her ...

When the Aga Khan died in 1957, he named Aly’s Harvard-educated son Karim, 23, as head of the Ismaili sect. Close friends say that Aly was crushed at being passed over, that it was “the worst ...

Almost nobody is aware that these are actually the graves of the last Mughal emperor’s wives. Following the failed uprising of 1857, Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled by the British to distant Rangoon.

The official trailer for "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" season 2 is here.On Tuesday, the trailer for the highly anticipated upcoming season of the hit Hulu show was unveiled at Hulu's first ...

The list does not end there. Hollywood diva Rita Hayworth's marriage to Prince Aly Khan so annoyed his father Aga Khan III that he was not allowed to succeed as Aga Khan IV, Panamanian-American ...

The Aga Khan, a hereditary position, is the head of the Nizari Ismaili sect, the largest branch of the Ismaili sect. Both are Shia sects that trace their origins back to the time of Prophet ...

Sulaiyma, a 4-year-old filly by Kingman headlined the Goffs Online Sale of seven Aga Khan horses when making €150,000 to Tally-Ho Stud Feb. 13. The half dozen to sell generated turnover of € ...

Al-Hussaini is now Aga Khan V, a title given to the 50th imam of the Nizari Ismaili branch of Shia Islam. Although the Ismaili Muslim community is estimated to include only 12 to 15 million people, ...

Several years ago, the Aga Khan IV led the metro's Ismaili Muslim community to begin construction on the five-story marbled center towering 72 feet over its 11 acres of land near Buffalo Bayou.

The funeral of Aga Khan IV, the 49th hereditary imam of the Shiite Ismaili community, and a notable supporter of Irish horse racing, was taken place in Lisbon on Saturday.Canadian Prime Minister ...