AGA KHANmagnet of the Ismaelite Muslims and leader of an important developmental aid foundation, has died on Tuesday in Lisbon at 88 years of age, As confirmed by its own foundation.
«His highness Prince Karim al Hussaini, Aga Khan IV, 49th Imán heir to the Chiitas Ismaeilitas Muslims and direct descendant of the prophet Muhammad (that peace is on him), died peacefully in Lisbon on February 4, 2025 at 88 years , surrounded by his family, ”he published in X the AGA Khan Development Network. The Foundation added that “the announcement of its designated successor will be given soon.”
Present in many countries, especially in Central and South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, the Ismaelite community brings together between 12 and 15 million people, according to their website. AGA Khan founded and presided over its namesake 96,000 people and finances development programs especially in Asia and Africa.
Aga Khan is the title of the magnet (Muslim leader) of the Nizari Ismaelites and was first granted in 1818 to Hasan Ali Shah, the Aga Khan I. The last bearer of the title is grandson of his predecessor, Mohamed Shah, and passed his Childhood in Kenya. He was enthroned as the 49th magnet of the Ismaelitas in 1957 in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. His father was excluded from the succession after his tumultuous marriage to the American actress Rita Hayworth.
Born in Geneva in 1936, this Harvard student I could have lived from the inheritance of a grandfather who literally valued his weight in goldas demonstrated by a photograph of 1946 in which he is seen on a balance receiving the equivalent of his weight in gold.
But with less than 21 years, the new Aga Khan imposed the task of continuing the work of his grandfather, who had created hospitals, homes and bank cooperatives to help the most vulnerable. The heir invested much of his fortune in the poorest countries, combining philanthropy with business sense.
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