The Ismaili Muslim community in Houston, Ghulamhussain said, is both large and tight-knit, and is devastated over the death of the Aga Khan. “He is the only spiritual leader we had growing up ...

The Ismaili Muslim community in Houston, Ghulamhussain said, is both large and tight-knit, and is devastated over the death of the Aga Khan. “He is the only spiritual leader we had growing up ...

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 ...

Country music, the aroma of chai, cowboy hats, pancakes, syrup and scrambled eggs with a coconut curry on the side — it’s not ...

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.

I had been bracing myself for this news. His Highness Prince Karim al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV was 88 and reportedly in poor health. For nearly 68 years, he had served as the spiritual leader of the ...

Ismaili Islam is a branch of Shia Islam. According to the Shiites, temporal and spiritual power is vested in the imams, or those who lead their followers from "in front," who are appointed from ...

The American Academy of Religion (AAR), the largest academic organization for religious study, named a book written by a Georgetown professor at the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for ...

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 Ismaili community’s website said he was born on Dec. 13, 1936, in Creux-de-Genthod, near Geneva, the son of Joan Yarde-Buller and Aly Khan, and spent part of his childhood in Nairobi, Kenya ...

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 ...