2 days 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 was admitted to MIT and wanted to study science, but his grandfather, Aga Khan III, vetoed the decision and Prince Karim attended Harvard University, where he was elected a member of The Delphic Club and majored in Islamic history. [20] [21] [17] When his grandfather died, the young prince was thrust into the position of the Aga Khan.

2 days ago · Prince Shah Karim Al Husseini was born on Dec. 13, 1936, in Geneva. He spent his early childhood in Nairobi, Kenya, before returning to Switzerland and attending the exclusive Le Rosey School.

2 days ago · His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV was a student when his grandfather passed over his playboy father as his successor to lead the diaspora of Shia Ismaili Muslims. IE 11 is not supported.

2 days 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 ...

2 days ago · 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 ...

2 days 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 ...

1 day 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 ...

2 days ago · It said: “His Highness Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, Aga Khan IV, 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), passed away ...

2 days 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 ...