1 day ago · Prince Karim Al-Hussaini was born in Geneva on Dec. 13, 1936. He was the eldest son of the noted playboy Prince Aly Khan and his first wife, Joan (Yarde-Buller) Khan, a descendant of British ...

Prince Karim Al-Husseini [1] [3] [4] [5] (Arabic: شاه كريم الحسيني, romanized: Shāh Karīm al-Ḥusaynī; 13 December 1936 – 4 February 2025), known as the Aga Khan IV (Persian: آقا خان چهارم, romanized: Āqā Khān Chārom), [6] [7] was the 49th imam of Isma'ilism from 1957 until his death in 2025. He held the position of imam and the title of Aga Khan after ...

14 hours ago · His Highness Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV and 49th hereditary imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, in London in 2019. Max Mumby / Indigo / Getty Images file Save with a NBCUniversal Profile

1 day ago · The Aga Khan Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, spiritual leader and friend of the late Queen, dies aged 88. The Aga Khan was the spiritual leader of about 12 million people from the Ismaili sect of Islam ...

13 hours ago · The Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, has died. Karim Al-Hussaini became the Aga Khan at age 20 as a Harvard undergraduate when his grandfather passed over his father as his successor. The Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, has died. ... Alabama woman received a pig kidney transplant last month after eight years ...

13 hours ago · Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan — the title given to the imam of the Nizari Ismailis, a branch of Shia Islam — died February 4 in Lisbon at the age of 88. He led a major development aid ...

5 hours ago · 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 ...

4 hours ago · The late Prince Karim Al-Hussaini was born in 1936 in Geneva, Switzerland. He later studied Islamic history at Harvard. He became the 49th Imam of Nizari Ismaili Muslims in 1957 after his ...

1 day ago · The Aga Khan Foundation announced on its website that Karim Al-Hussaini, the 49th hereditary imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, died on Tuesday in Portugal, surrounded by his family. An ...

Dec 9, 2024 · Aga Khan IV is the elder son of Prince Aly Khan by his first wife, Joan Yarde-Buller, the daughter of the 3rd Baron Churston. Educated in Switzerland and at Harvard University, he was chosen as successor to the imamate of the Nizārī Ismāʿīlī sect by his grandfather, the Aga Khan III, whom he.