I had been bracing myself for this news. His Highness Prince Karim al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV was 88 and reportedly in poor health. For nearly 68 years, he had served as the spiritual leader of the ...

Mr Rahim, born in 1971, is the eldest son of Aga Khan IV and his first wife, Princess Salimah, ... the holy book of Muslims. They consider Aga Khan their head and spiritual leader.

The Aga Khan IV, accompanied by his wife, Princess Salimah, right, greets his French jockey Yves Saint-Martin, winner of the Prix du Jockey Club, at the Chantilly Racecourse in France on June 3, 1979.

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 ...

Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV, died on February 4 in Lisbon, Portugal at age 88. News of his passing was confirmed by Aga Khan Development Network’s X channel.. As founder and ...

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 ...

Who said what. 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.

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 ...

Relatives of Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV and 49th hereditary imam of the Shiite Ismaili Muslims, who died Tuesday in Portugal, walk during a funeral ceremony at the Aga Khan ...

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.

He became the Aga Khan IV on July 11, 1957, in Geneva, Switzerland and later that year had an installation ceremony in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, ...