As a 20-year-old Harvard graduate, the Aga Khan, born Prince Shah Karim Al-Hussaini, became the 49th hereditary Imam of the Ismaili Muslims in 1957, leading a global community of

His Highness the Aga Khan is dead. Prince Karim Al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV died in Lisbon, Portugal, on Tuesday 4, Kenya’s Nation reported this morning, without giving details. Prince Karim Al-Hussaini was the 49th hereditary spiritual leader of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and the founder of the Aga

Rahim Al-Hussaini was named Wednesday as the new Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims, following the death of his father.