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

He had served as the 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Nizari Ismaili Muslim community for almost 68 years, having succeeded his grandfather Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah at the age of only twenty ...

Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, Aga Khan and billionaire philanthropist, dead at 88 Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan — the title given to the imam of the Nizari Ismailis, a branch of Shia Islam ...

The Muslim denominations were the Barelvi, Deobandi, and Shafi movements within Sunni Islam and the Ismaili and Bohras branches of Shia Islam, as well as general Shia Islam. The accord was led by ...

The Ismaili sect split into two branches in 1094. Aga Khan was the leader of the Nizari branch, which believes in a living imam or leader. The second branch – Musta’lian Tayyibi Ismailis ...

The Aga Khan is the title of the Imam or spiritual leader of the community of Shia Muslims known as the Nizari Ismailis, a multi-ethnic group spread across the world, also living in Goa. The title of ...

Prince Karim Aga Khan at an event on Oct. 2, 2019, in London. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images ...

The Ismaili sect split into two branches in 1094. Aga Khan was the leader of the Nizari branch, which believes in a living imam or leader. The second branch – Musta'lian Tayyibi Ismailis – believes ...