LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Rahim Al-Hussaini was named Wednesday as the new Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world’s millions ...

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

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

Hussaini, the new spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, was named as the successor to his father, who died at 88.

At the age of 20, Prince Karim Al-Hussaini inherited the reins of a Shia Muslim lineage and used his entrepreneurship to ...

The Aga Khan IV then took control of the Thoroughbred operation in 1960 following the death of his father. He earned France's ...

Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini was named the 50th hereditary Imam, or spiritual leader, of Ismaili Muslims on Wednesday after the will of his late father Prince Karim Aga Khan IV was unsealed, the Aga Khan ...

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

Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV, died on February 4 in Lisbon, Portugal at age 88. As founder and chairman of the Aga Khan ...

He held citizenship in Canada, Britain, and Portugal, and had strong ties to India, where he played a significant role in ...