The spiritual leader of the world’s Ismaili Muslims for nearly seven decades, Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, passed away on ...

Aga Khan, the religious leader of the Ismailis – a sect of Islam – established the Aga Khan Foundation in 1967. It has served ...

In July 1957, when his grandfather Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, the Aga Khan III, unexpectedly designated Karim his ...

He was widely regarded as a builder of bridges between Muslim societies and the West despite his reticence to become involved ...

The late Prince Karim Al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV, who died on Tuesday in Lisbon after nearly seven decades as the spiritual ...

His first wife was Sarah Croker Poole, a British model and former debutante who took the name Salima Aga Khan after they married. The daughter of a Lieutenant Colonel in New Delhi, in 1958 she was ...

and Hussain Aga Khan, and a daughter, Zahra Aga Khan. Karim was born in Switzerland and spent his childhood in Nairobi and graduated from Harvard University with a BA Honors Degree in Islamic History.

The Aga Khan, who assumed the role of spiritual leader for millions of Ismaili Muslims at age 20 while an undergraduate at Harvard, has died at age 88. He dedicated vast resources, amassed from ...

Aga Khan IV to Be Buried in Egypt on Sunday LISBON ... and his wife Fatima, the Prophet's daughter. The world's Ismaili community, a branch of Shi'ite Islam, comprises around 15 million people ...

The Aga Khan will be buried in Lisbon. The date was not released. He is survived by three sons and a daughter and several grandchildren.