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 Aga Khan IV - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Aga Khan IV, real name Karim Al Hussaini Shah (1936- ), born in Geneva, and educated in Switzerland and at Harvard University.
Aga Khan, real name Hasan Ali Shah (1800-1881), believed to be a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad.
Aga Khan was governor of the province of Kermān,...
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 Aga Khan - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Aga Khan, the title of the religious leader and imam of the Ismaili Nizari sect of Islam, originally bestowed by the Persian shah Fath Ali on Hasan Ali Shah, 1800-1881, the 46th Ismaili imam, in 1818.
Aga Khan Development Network launches web site to provide information on the activities of the development agencies created by His Highness the Aga Khan.
All about her mother The Aga Khan is the ultimate trophy husband, and in 1998 he was snapped up by Gabriele, the daughter of a 'handy-wipe' entrepreneur and his socially adventurous, astonishingly well-preserved wife.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-agakhan.html   (606 words)

  
 Aga Khan III[1877-1957]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Aga Khan also greatly contributed towards the political cause of the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent.
Aga Khan was a man of vision and was of the opinion that the reform scheme introduced by the British would be beneficial to the Muslims.
Aga Khan fell ill in 1954 during his visit to Dhaka and from then on struggling with ill health, died on July 11, 1957 of a heart attack in Switzerland.
www.storyofpakistan.com /person.asp?perid=P004   (595 words)

  
 Ismaili.NET Timeline News Item
Aga Khan: If you interpret his speech as one about faith and reason then I think that the debate is very exciting and could be enormously constructive between the Muslim world and the non-Muslim world.
Aga Khan: I would like to compliment the German government and others in Europe who have taken the decision to invite President Assad to be a party to the peace process.
Prince Karim Aga Khan IV Prince Karim Aga Khan IV is considered to be the direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammad and, as the 49th imam, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims.
www.ismaili.net /timeline/2006/20061012agakhan-interview.html   (3099 words)

  
 THE SAGA OF THE AGA: THE KHAN WHO COULD BE KING, October 19, 1996
The Aga Khan III (1877-1957) was laid to rest in a mausoleum on a hillside overlooking Aswan.
Aga Khan I (1804-81) and was later adopted as a hereditary family name by his descendants.
It was therefore as Sir Aga that the Aga Khan III led the British Indian delegation to the Round Table Conference held in London.
www.egy.com /historica/96-10-19.shtml   (1693 words)

  
 The Institute of Ismaili Studies - Introduction to His Highness the Aga Khan
His Highness the Aga Khan became Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims on July 11, 1957 at the age of 20, succeeding his grandfather, Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan.
The Aga Khan's grandfather was President of the League of Nations and his father, Prince Aly Khan, was Pakistan's Ambassador to the United Nations.
The Aga Khan's eldest child and daughter, Princess Zahra, who graduated from Harvard in 1994 with a BA Honors Degree in Third World Development Studies, has coordination responsibilities relating to specific social development institutions of the Imamat and is based at his Secretariat.
www.iis.ac.uk /view_article.asp?ContentID=103467   (1109 words)

  
 `A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE AGAKHANS'
Thus, the Aga Khan was worshipped as; a physical manifestation of the `Noor' (Light) of Allah, the Tenth and Final Avatara (`Naklank' or `Kalkin') of the Lord Vishnu and the direct descendant of prophet Muhammad (s.a.s.) from Hadhrat Ali (a.s.).
Aga Khan's deep rooted hatred for the faith of his parents and grand parents (Ithna'ashrism) is glaringly visible in the quoted `Farman' made by him from Zanzibar on July 13, 1899.
Aga Khan's followers in British East Africa, whose ancestral roots were in India, became anglicized and proudly adopted the English names for their children, such as, John, Jimmy, Tommy, Sam and Mac.
www.islamworld.net /aga.html   (7794 words)

  
 Aga Khan: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
All about Her Mother; the Aga Khan Is the Ultimate Trophy Husband, and...Princess Michael of Kent invited the Aga Khan and his glamorous German-born wife...after six years of marriage, the Aga Khan and Inaara - meaning light in Arabic...
AGA KHAN a ga khan, the title of the religious...the 46th Ismaili imam, in 1818.
AGA MUHAMMAD KHAN or Agha Muhammad Khan both: a ga mooham mad khan, 1742 97, shah of Persia, founder of the Qajar dynasty...wholesale massacre in Kerman.
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 Aga Khan II - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Aga Khan II, real name Aqa Ali Shah (1830-1885), who served as leader of the Ismaili sect.
Shergar was owned and bred by Aga Khan IV, and ridden to victory by the 19-year-old Walter...
Aga Khan I, real name Hasan Ali Shah (1800-1881), believed to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad through his daughter Fatima and his...
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 AGA KHAN. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The first Aga Khan was also appointed as the governor of the province of Kirman, a position he lost as a result of political intrigues following Fath Ali’s death.
In turn, his son, Sultan Muhammad, 1877–1957, assumed the title of Aga Khan III, and played an instrumental role in attempting to secure Muslim support for the British rule of India.
He was succeeded by his grandson, Prince Karim, 1937–, who as Aga Khan IV has devoted substantial Ismaili wealth to development projects in countries with a significant Ismaili population, and who instituted (1977) a noted series of awards for Islamic architecture.
www.bartleby.com /aol/65/ag/AgaKhan.html   (295 words)

  
 Sadruddin Aga Khan: mujahideen coordinator
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, the second son of the hereditary Imam of the Ismaili sect of Shi'ism, is a specialist in running intelligence operations under humanitarian cover.
Prince Sadruddin's grandfather, Aga Khan II, was a founder of the Muslim League, sponsored by the British in the wake of the Sepoy Rebellion of 1858; its activities ultimately led to the vivisection of India in 1947.
His father, who was the 48th Imam, Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah Aga Khan III, was very close to the British royal family during his 72-year reign, and held the post of chairman of the League of Nation's General Assembly for a year.
www.larouchepub.com /other/1995/2241_aga_khan.html   (842 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Exhibit
Aga Khan, Aga Sultan Sir Mohammed Shah 1877-1957, third holder of the title Aga Khan (bestowed on his grandfather by the British Government), 48th head of the Ismaili sect of the Shiah Moslem community, and a member of the ruling Kajar dynasty in Persia, was born in Karachi 2 November 1877.
The Aga Khan was chosen in 1897 by the Moslems of Western India to convey to the viceroy their greetings to the Queen Empress on her diamond jubilee.
The Aga Khan, who had declined the chairmanship, was a member, and the committee's report proposed compromises, more particularly over Indian immigration into East Africa, and the reservation of certain districts in the coastal lowlands which were of much importance to India.
www.thepeerage.com /e143.htm   (2023 words)

  
 A HISTORY OF THE AGAKHANI ISMAILIS
Aga Khan I was respected and revered by his followers as a Sufi Master, who are often called in India “Pirji” or “Pir Salamut,” and after the Khojah Case, as an Imam in the Ithna'ashriyya sense (similar to the late Ayatollah Khomeini).
Aga Khan III recorded in his Memoirs that his father died in Poona but his body was sent to Iraq, at his own request, to be buried at Nejaf on the west bank of the Euphrates, near the tomb of Imam 'Ali, one of the holiest places on earth for the Shi'ahs.
However, Aga Khan did not uproot and throw out a Minbar (pronounced Mimbar; a pulpit in a mosque) of Hazrat Abbas and a Hoj (sunken pond) of Bibi Fatima in front of the pulpit, which were built near the main entrance on the main floor of the Darkhana Jama`at khana in Bombay.
www.mostmerciful.com /book-4.htm   (9118 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Amid the glitz, the Aga Khan aspires to spiritual philanthropy
The Aga Khan was born in Geneva on Dec. 13, 1936, to Aly Khan and British-born Joan Yarde-Buller.
The Aga Khan seems to be more a man in the image of his grandfather, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan, who served as a president of the League of Nations in 1937.
His 1954 "Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time," with a foreword by Somerset Maugham, recounts how the Aga Khan was received by Queen Victoria, forged a friendship with Winston Churchill in 1896, befriended King Edward VII and lived through the apex of British imperial might and decline in colonial India.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002164209_agakhan29.html   (1474 words)

  
 AGA KHAN I - Online Information article about AGA KHAN I
KHAN (from the Turki, hence Persian and Arabic Khan)
He was also the means of checking the fanaticism of the more turbulent Mahommedans in British India, which in times of internal troubles and misunderstandings finds vent in the shape of religious or political riots.
He was succeeded by his eldest son, AGA KHAN II.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /ADA_AIZ/AGA_KHAN_I.html   (1004 words)

  
 His Highness the Aga Khan - A Birthday Tribute
His Highness the Aga Khan became Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims on July 11, 1957 at the age of 20, succeeding his grandfather, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan.
Son of Prince Aly Khan and Princess Tajuddawlah Aly Khan, the Aga Khan was born on December 13, 1936,
In 1984, the Aga Khan became the 19th recipient of the University of Virginia's Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal in Architecture, awarded in recognition of his work (photo) as a "patron of architectural culture".
www.amaana.org /agakhan/profile.htm   (1652 words)

  
 Website Presenting True Islaam, Peaceful, Tolerant, Rational, Intellectual and ...
This mother of Karim Aga Khan was of highly loose character, men trapper, personally fond of drinking plenty of wine and getting involved in illicit sexual relations with several men to partly quench her unquenchable sexual lust.
Therefore, it is transparently clear and unambiguously apparent that after remaining of Karim Aga Khan in the womb of his mother for approximately seven months, legally he would be recognized, termed and called as the son of Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness and not of Aly Solomone Khan.
As a matter of fact the actual year of birth of Karim Aga Khan is 1935 and not 1936 as has been manipulated fraudulently by Ismailis with the consent of Aga Khan to change the year of birth from 1935 to 1936 keeping the month and date as same i.e.
www.allaahuakbar.net /ismaaeelis/blasphemy_by_prince_karim_aga_khan.htm   (2432 words)

  
 Aga Khan and Family - The Royal Forums
The Aga Khan's eldest child and daughter, Princess Zahra, who graduated from Harvard in 1994 with a BA Honors Degree in Third World Development Studies, has co-ordination responsibilities relating to specific social development institutions of the Imamat and is based at his Secretariat.
In 1991, the Aga Khan was awarded the Médaille d'argent of the Académie d'Architecture of France.
The Aga Khan was also married to the Begum Inaara, formerly Gabriele zu Leiningen, with whom he has a 4 year old son Prince Aly Muhammad.
www.theroyalforums.com /forums/f75/aga-khan-family-6783.html   (2962 words)

  
 Everybody, except us Shi'ites, are illegitimate.(kulainee-Furoo'u Kafi in Kitabul Raudah: 135)A good reference for ...
His followers consider the Aga Khan as man god and an incarnation of Hazrat Ali (RD.) as well as the incarnation of Rasool Allaah (p.b.u.h.) This means that Aga Khan in his capacity, as Imaam is holder and bearer of Noor-e-Elahie and Noor-e-Hidayat.
It is regrettable that Aga Khan claims himself as the champion of Muslim cause but, acts incessantly and earnestly on the behest of the British, against the Islamic values, and interests of Muslim Ummah, which resulted into irreparable damage.
The Aga Khan-III was very actively engaged in league with the Zionists for the destruction of the Muslim Khilafat for the establishment of the Zionist State of Israel.
www.allaahuakbar.net /ismaaeelis/memorandum_on_aga_khan.htm   (6112 words)

  
 The Aga Khans
In the 1830s, Aga Hasan Ali Shah, the 46th Ismaili Imam, was granted the honorary hereditary title of Aga Khan by the Shah of Persia, Fath Ali Shah.
He was succeeded by the present Aga Khan's grandfather, and predecessor as Imam, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan.
The current Aga Khan became Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims on July 11, 1957 at the age of 20, succeeding his grandfather, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan.
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 History of the Ismaili Imamat
Imam Aga Ali Shah assumed the title of Aga Khan II, and was honoured with the courtesy of His Highness, first granted to his father, by the British government.
Building on the initiatives of his father, Aga Khan II set about the long-term task of social development of the community, with emphasis on education.
Aga Khan II passed away in 1885 after being the Imam for only four years.
www.akdn.org /imamat/imamat_history.html   (1426 words)

  
 BIO DATA OF AN ISMAILI SHI
Aga Khan, who claimed to be an Imam and a direct descendant of the prophet, wrote in his Memoirs: "As Haffkine propounded it, I thought this sort of Zionism useful and practical." The scheme was turned down by the Sultan.
Strange it may sound, when the old Aga Khan was suffering from cancer, his wife Begum Ummeh Habibah sent a message to Ismailis the world over, to pray every day in the Jamatkhanas for the recovery of their Imaam to whom they attributed "Divinity".
It is reported that Karim Aga Khan had been articulating; the worst thing that could happen to an individual was to be got trapped in an unhappy marriage.
www.hadaaya.com /agakhaani_01.htm   (8426 words)

  
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For Hadji Ibrahim Aga [Gadti Ibragim Aga], in that in January of the past year of 1788 he was sent by me to Anapa to spy out enemy intentions, and where he came under the suspicion of Pasha Koise-Mustafa.
From here he was sent by sea to Ochakov to Hassan Pasha and Khan Shah Bas Girei who at that time was with his forces on the River Prut near the place called Khan Tepe.
Khan sent him back to Hassan Pasha with Chegadar and to Hadji Bey, from where he found an opportunity to depart and come to our army at Ochakov.
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 About His Highness the Aga Khan
His Highness the Aga Khan became Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims on July 11, 1957 at the age of 20, succeeding his grandfather, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah
Son of Prince Aly Khan and Princess Tajuddawlah Aly Khan, the Aga Khan was born on December 13, 1936, in Geneva.
Like his grandfather Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan before him, the Aga Khan has, since assuming the office of Imamat in 1957, been concerned about the well-being of all Muslims, particularly in the face of the challenges of rapid historical changes.
www.akdn.org /hh/highness.html   (1086 words)

  
 KING KHAN & THE SHRINES HOMEPAGE
In 1995 Khan leaves the frosty soil of the city of Montreal playing the bass for the International-Underground-Legends THE SPACESHITS.
Khan meets Fredovitch (Bordeaux's wildest organ player) wearing a silverstudded gogo dress, matching cowboy hat and sporting a full beard.
In 2003 Khan encounters the Hazelwood-producers-team Gordon “Two Horses” Friedrich and Wolfgang “Amadeus” Gottlieb, who stage the second longplayer MR.
www.hazelwood.de /kingkhan/index.php   (372 words)

  
 Harvard Gazette: The many aspects of Islamic design
Hashim Sarkis, the Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies, wants to change the way we think not only about Islamic architecture, but about design issues in the Muslim world generally.
Since he was appointed to his present position in 2002, Sarkis has been shaping a new program, based at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), that aims to understand the impact of development policies on public space, environmental concerns, land use, and territorial settlement patterns.
The new program complements and expands the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, founded in 1979 and based at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
www.hno.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/12.16/13-agakhan.html   (836 words)

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