He became the Aga Khan IV on July 11, 1957, in Geneva, Switzerland and later that year had an installation ceremony in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on the spot where his grandfather once had his ...

A direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, Khan was the founder and chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network.

Accounts differ as to the date and place of Prince Karim Aga Khan’s birth. According to “Who’s Who in France,” he was born on Dec. 13, 1936, in Creux-de-Genthod, near Geneva, Switzerland ...

an exclusive boarding school for boys near Geneva, with a winter retreat in the ski resort town of Gstaad, would have as an official mentor, his grandmother Begum Om Habbibeh Aga Khan, a Swiss ...

Ruto awarded the two the highest civilian honour in Kenya. Prince Rahim Aga Khan V was bestowed as the Chief of the Order of ...

The Municipality of Olbia has formally proposed renaming its airport to honor Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, the late spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslim community, who passed away on February 4, 2025, ...

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, ...

Born in Geneva, the Aga Khan spent his childhood in Kenya and was appointed in Tanzania to succeed his grandfather in 1957. His father was passed over in the line of succession after a tumultuous ...

His Aga Khan Development Network and the Ismaili religious ... in Creux-de-Genthod, near Geneva, Switzerland, the son of Joan Yarde-Buller and Aly Khan, and spent part of his childhood in Nairobi ...