Episode 2836
Aga Khan IV
Thu, 2025-Feb-06 01:43 UTC
Length - 2:23
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With 383,567 views on Wednesday, 5 February 2025 our article of the day is Aga Khan IV.
Prince Karim Al-Husseini (Arabic: شاه كريم الحسيني, romanized: Shāh Karīm al-Ḥusaynī; 13 December 1936 – 4 February 2025), known as the Aga Khan IV (Persian: آقا خان چهارم, romanized: Āqā Khān Chārom), was the 49th imam of Isma'ilism from 1957 until his death in 2025. He held the position of imam and the title of Aga Khan after succeeding to the position at the age of 20 upon the death of his grandfather, Aga Khan III. Aga Khan IV was also known by the religious title Mawlānā Hazar Imam by his Isma'ili followers.
The Aga Khan's net worth was estimated over US$13.3 billion by Vanity Fair in 2013. Forbes described the Aga Khan as one of the world's fifteen richest royals. He was the founder and chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network, one of the largest private development networks in the world. The Aga Khan was a business magnate with British and Portuguese citizenship, as well as a racehorse owner and breeder.
From the time of his ascension to the Imamate of the Nizari Ismailis in 1957, the Aga Khan was involved in complex political and economic changes which affected his followers, including the independence of African countries from colonial rule, the expulsion of Asians from Uganda, the independence of Central Asian countries such as Tajikistan from the former Soviet Union and the continuous turmoil in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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