The Aga Khan, spiritual head of Ismaili Muslims, listens to a speech during the inauguration of the restored 16th century Humayun’s Tomb in New Delhi, India, on Sept. 18, 2013. | Manish Swarup/AP ...

With the launch of The EastAfrican in 1994, a long-standing ambition of the Aga Khan as a regional investor finally came to pass. M y entry into the project as the newspaper’s founding editor ...

ASWAN, Egypt — The Aga Khan IV was laid to rest on Sunday at a private ceremony in Aswan, Egypt. The death of Prince Karim — the 49th hereditary imam of the Shiite Ismaili Muslims — was ...

A funeral ceremony is being held today in Lisbon for the Aga Khan IV, the spiritual leader of the world's Shi'ite Ismaili Muslims who passed away in Portugal on February 4 at the age of 88. He ...

The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims at age 20 as a Harvard undergraduate and poured a material empire built on billions of dollars in tithes ...

The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims at age 20 as a Harvard undergraduate and poured a material empire built on billions of dollars in tithes ...

The Aga Khan, spiritual head of Ismaili Muslims, listens to a speech during the inauguration of the Aga Khan Academy in Hyderabad, India, Friday, Sept. 20, 2013. Credit: AP/Mahesh Kumar A.

The Aga Khan IV was laid to rest on Sunday at a private ceremony in Aswan, Egypt. The death of Prince Karim – the 49th hereditary imam of the Shiite Ismaili Muslims – was announced Tuesday by ...

PARIS (AP) — The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims at age 20 as a Harvard undergraduate and poured a material empire built on billions of ...

The Aga Khan addresses an audience about the challenges to a pluralistic society on Nov. 12, 2015, at the Memorial Church on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. Steven Senne/AP ...

The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims at age 20 and then evolved into a business magnate and philanthropist, died Tuesday.

He became the Aga Khan IV on Oct. 19, 1957, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on the spot where his grandfather once had his weight equaled in diamonds in gifts from his followers.