The death of the Aga Khan, who was the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims, struck a deep chord with ...

At the age of 20, Prince Karim Al-Hussaini inherited the reins of a Shia Muslim lineage and used his entrepreneurship to ...

Here are five keys to better understanding the religious tradition. Ismaili Islam is a branch of Shia Islam. According to the Shiites, temporal and spiritual power is vested in the imams ...

Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini was named the 50th hereditary Imam, or spiritual leader, of Ismaili Muslims on Wednesday after the will of his late father Prince Karim Aga Khan IV was unsealed, the Aga Khan ...

The Aga Khan, imam of the Ismaili Muslims and head of a major development aid network, has died in Lisbon at the age of 88, ...

The Aga Khan, imam of the Ismaili Muslims and head of a major development aid foundation, has died in Lisbon, Portugal at the ...

Ismaili Muslims said a last goodbye on Saturday to their late spiritual leader, Aga Khan IV, at a private funeral ceremony in ...

Last week, Prince Rahim al-Hussaini ’95 was named the spiritual leader of millions of Ismaili Muslims after his father, the ...

Present most notably in central and southern Asia, Africa and the Middle East, the Ismaili community numbers some 12 to 15 million people, according to its website. It is a branch of Shiite Islam.

the fourth Rightly Guided Caliph of Islam and the first Shia Imam," the Diwan of Ismaili Imamat said Wednesday. Omar Samji, a spokesperson for the Ismaili Council for the U.S.A, based in Houston ...

Despite his role as the spiritual head of the Ismaili Muslims, he was reluctant to discuss Middle East conflicts, religious fundamentalism or Sunni-Shiite tensions. Islam is not a faith “of ...

Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, Aga Khan IV, was regarded as a direct descendent of the Prophet Mohammed, given nearly divine status as the 49th hereditary imam of the Ismaili sect of Shia Islam.