In 1969, he married Sarah Frances Croker Poole, his first wife, who became Begum Salimah. Their son, Rahim Al-Hussaini, has now become the 50 th Imam and Aga Khan V.

Aswan also holds a historical significance for the Aga Khan family as it pays homage to the Fatimid dynasty, from which the Ismaili Imams trace their lineage. With the burial of Aga Khan IV in ...

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, ...

LAHORE: Governor Punjab Sardar Saleem Haider Khan, accompanied by senior PPP leader, Hassan Murtaza, visited the Jamat Khana of the late Prince Karim Aga Khan in Lahore, where he offered “Fateha ...

Investing in Education: A Key to Development One of Aga Khan’s greatest contributions was in education. Through the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), he established top-tier schools and ...

He conveyed the condolences of the government and the people of Kenya following the passing on of his father, His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV. Aga Khan V officially assumed office on Tuesday ...

The leaders of the Dawoodi Bohra Community representing His Holiness Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, paid a condolence call on His Highness Prince Rahim al-Hussaini Aga Khan V, in Lisbon, on the sad ...

The Aga Khan III mausoleum, a rectangular mosque-like building on top of a hill on the western bank of the Nile River in the southern Egyptian city of Aswan, is now at the centre of tourism hopes in ...

PRINCE KARIM AGA KHAN, the 49th hereditary imam of the Ismaili Muslims, died on February 4 in Lisbon, at the age of 88. His son is now the 50th imam in an unbroken chain claiming direct descent from ...

(Photo by Arup1981 / CC BY-SA 3.0) Rahim Al-Hussaini, the son of Aga Khan IV, who passed away on February 4 in Lisbon at the age of 88, will succeed his father as the head of the Nizari Ismailis ...