1948
Eldest son of Prince Aly Khan, Karim AGA Khan IV serving drinks to (Left to Right) Mrs. F.H. Hanbury, Mrs. G.A. Roelandts, and Lord Willoughby de Brooke. Photo by John Swope
1949
Family portrait of the Aga Khan household showing (back Left to Right) Begum; wife of the Aga Khan, Amyon; younger son of Aly Khan, Sadruddin; younger son of the Aga Khan and Aly's half brother, Aly Khan and Karim; Aly Khan's older son. Seated in front are the AgaKhan (Left) and actress Rita Hayworth, wife to Aly Khan. Photo by Dmitri Kessel
1953
Château du, 1180 Rolle, Switzerland
Aga Khan IV helps launch a boat into Lake Geneva during his last days at Le Rosey High School, while a young Edward, Duke of Kent gives a hand.
1957
Aswan, Egypt
Karim Khan Aga IV At grandfather's funeral. Photo by James Whitmore
1957
Aswan, Egypt
Aga Khan IV after attending the funeral of the Aga Khan III in Aswan, Egypt, 1957. Photo by James Whitmore
1958
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Aga Khan IV on a subway in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958. Photo by Walter Sanders
1958
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Aga Khan IV reading a book at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958. Photo by Walter Sanders
1958
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Portrait of Swiss-born Aga Khan IV (born Prince Karim Khan) in his Harvard University blazer as he smiles with an armful of books, on the Harvard Campus, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958. Photo by Hank Walker
1957
Kitzbuhel, Austria
Karim Al Hussaini Shah, Aga Khan IV, fastening a ski during a skiing trip in Kitzbuhel.
1964
Lizum, Austria
Aga Khan IV at the 1964 Olympics.
1967
Costa Smerelda, Sardinia, Italy
The Aga Khan on Sardinia with his development Costa Smeralda in the background on 1st August 1967.
1969
Paris, France
Prince Shah Karim Al Hussaini, Aga Khan IV pictured together with his bride Salimah Aga Khan (Sarah Croker-Poole) on their wedding day at the Aga Khan's residence in Paris on 28th October 1969.
1969
Paris, France
Karim Aga Khan IV and Sarah Crocker-Poole on 21 October 1969 in Paris, France
1973
Porto Cervo, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, smoking a pipe, and Prince Karim Aga Khan IV fishing in the waters off the coast of Porto Cervo on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, in August 1973. Photo by Slim Aarons
1982
4 Rue Colonel Bellando de Castro, 98000 Monaco, Monaco
Funeral of Princess Grace of Monaco; Cathedral of Monaco, 20.09.1982. Karim Aga Khan. Photo by Philippe Le Tellier
1997
Gouvieux, France
The Aga Khan's wife Gabrielle von Thyssen (Need Approval) in Gouvieux, France on May 30, 1998 - The Aga Khan and Princess Gabriele Zu Leiningen. Photo by Chip Hires
2016
Paris, France
Architect Dominique Perrault, Prince Karim Aga Khan, Member of Academie des Beaux-Arts, photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Member of Academie des Beaux-Arts, Photographer Sebastiao Salgado attends Dominique Perrault becomes a Member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts, Architecture Section: Official Ceremony on June 22, 2016, in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
2016
London, United Kingdom
His Highness The Aga Khan receives the Investec Derby trophy for his winning horse Harzand from Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II during Derby Day at the Investec Derby Festival, celebrating The Queen's 90th Birthday, at Epsom Downs Racecourse on June 4, 2016, in London, England. Photo by David M. Benett
2016
Paris, France
Permanent Secretary of Academie des Beaux-Arts, Arnaud d'Hauterives, President of the Academie des Beaux-Arts, Erik Desmazieres, Vice President of Academie des Beaux-Arts, Edith Canat de Chizy and (Front) Prince Karim Aga Khan attend Dominique Perrault becomes a Member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts, Architecture Section: Official Ceremony on June 22, 2016 in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
2018
Windsor SL4 1NJ, United Kingdom
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, prior to dinner at Windsor Castle on March 8, 2018, in Windsor, England. Queen Elizabeth II is hosting a private dinner in honor of the diamond jubilee of his leadership as Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslim Community. Photo by Dominic Lipinski
2005
1 Sussex Dr, Ottawa, ON K1A 0A1, Canada
His Highness the Aga Khan is presented with the insignia of Companion of the Order of Canada by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, during a private ceremony that was held at Rideau Hall, on Monday, June 6, 2005. His Highness the Aga Khan was invested as an Honorary Companion of the Order of Canada, for his meaningful contributions to Canada. Photo by Sergeant Eric Jolin
2017
Praça Afonso de Albuquerque, 1300-004 Lisboa, Portugal
Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa bestows Portugal’s highest honours - the Grand Cross of the Order of Liberty - on The Aga Khan at the Belem Palace on July 20, 2017, in recognition of his efforts in uplifting lives around the world. Photo by Antonio Pedrosa
2017
Bushenyi, Uganda
His Excellency Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda, presents His Highness the Aga Khan with the Most Excellent Order of the Pearl of Africa.
2018
Quai d'Orsay, Paris, France
The highest French national medal of honour was bestowed upon the Aga Khan at a ceremony at le Quai d’Orsay by France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian in commemoration of the Aga Khan’s Diamond Jubilee, commemorating 60 years as Imam (spiritual leader) of the world’s Shia Ismaili Muslim community.
1948
Eldest son of Prince Aly Khan, Karim AGA Khan IV serving drinks to (Left to Right) Mrs. F.H. Hanbury, Mrs. G.A. Roelandts, and Lord Willoughby de Brooke. Photo by John Swope
1949
Family portrait of the Aga Khan household showing (back Left to Right) Begum; wife of the Aga Khan, Amyon; younger son of Aly Khan, Sadruddin; younger son of the Aga Khan and Aly's half brother, Aly Khan and Karim; Aly Khan's older son. Seated in front are the AgaKhan (Left) and actress Rita Hayworth, wife to Aly Khan. Photo by Dmitri Kessel
1953
Château du, 1180 Rolle, Switzerland
Aga Khan IV helps launch a boat into Lake Geneva during his last days at Le Rosey High School, while a young Edward, Duke of Kent gives a hand.
1957
Kitzbuhel, Austria
Karim Al Hussaini Shah, Aga Khan IV, fastening a ski during a skiing trip in Kitzbuhel.
1957
Dar es-Salaam, Tanzania
Begum, Karim Khan, his parents, Princess Joan and Aly Khan, during Karim's installation as Aga Khan IV, following the death of his grandfather, making him head of Ismaili Moslem sect of the East African community. Photo by James Whitmore
1957
Aswan, Egypt
Karim Khan Aga IV At grandfather's funeral. Photo by James Whitmore
1957
Aswan, Egypt
Aga Khan IV after attending the funeral of the Aga Khan III in Aswan, Egypt, 1957. Photo by James Whitmore
1958
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Aga Khan IV on a subway in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958. Photo by Walter Sanders
1958
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Aga Khan IV reading a book at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958. Photo by Walter Sanders
1958
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Portrait of Swiss-born Aga Khan IV (born Prince Karim Khan) in his Harvard University blazer as he smiles with an armful of books, on the Harvard Campus, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958. Photo by Hank Walker
1964
Lizum, Austria
Aga Khan IV at the 1964 Olympics.
1967
Costa Smerelda, Sardinia, Italy
The Aga Khan on Sardinia with his development Costa Smeralda in the background on 1st August 1967.
1969
Paris, France
Prince Shah Karim Al Hussaini, Aga Khan IV pictured together with his bride Salimah Aga Khan (Sarah Croker-Poole) on their wedding day at the Aga Khan's residence in Paris on 28th October 1969.
1969
Paris, France
Karim Aga Khan IV and Sarah Crocker-Poole on 21 October 1969 in Paris, France
1973
Porto Cervo, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, smoking a pipe, and Prince Karim Aga Khan IV fishing in the waters off the coast of Porto Cervo on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, in August 1973. Photo by Slim Aarons
1982
4 Rue Colonel Bellando de Castro, 98000 Monaco, Monaco
Funeral of Princess Grace of Monaco; Cathedral of Monaco, 20.09.1982. Karim Aga Khan. Photo by Philippe Le Tellier
1997
Gouvieux, France
The Aga Khan's wife Gabrielle von Thyssen (Need Approval) in Gouvieux, France on May 30, 1998 - The Aga Khan and Princess Gabriele Zu Leiningen. Photo by Chip Hires
2005
1 Sussex Dr, Ottawa, ON K1A 0A1, Canada
His Highness the Aga Khan is presented with the insignia of Companion of the Order of Canada by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, during a private ceremony that was held at Rideau Hall, on Monday, June 6, 2005. His Highness the Aga Khan was invested as an Honorary Companion of the Order of Canada, for his meaningful contributions to Canada. Photo by Sergeant Eric Jolin
2016
Paris, France
Architect Dominique Perrault, Prince Karim Aga Khan, Member of Academie des Beaux-Arts, photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Member of Academie des Beaux-Arts, Photographer Sebastiao Salgado attends Dominique Perrault becomes a Member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts, Architecture Section: Official Ceremony on June 22, 2016, in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
2016
London, United Kingdom
His Highness The Aga Khan receives the Investec Derby trophy for his winning horse Harzand from Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II during Derby Day at the Investec Derby Festival, celebrating The Queen's 90th Birthday, at Epsom Downs Racecourse on June 4, 2016, in London, England. Photo by David M. Benett
2016
Paris, France
Permanent Secretary of Academie des Beaux-Arts, Arnaud d'Hauterives, President of the Academie des Beaux-Arts, Erik Desmazieres, Vice President of Academie des Beaux-Arts, Edith Canat de Chizy and (Front) Prince Karim Aga Khan attend Dominique Perrault becomes a Member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts, Architecture Section: Official Ceremony on June 22, 2016 in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
2017
Praça Afonso de Albuquerque, 1300-004 Lisboa, Portugal
Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa bestows Portugal’s highest honours - the Grand Cross of the Order of Liberty - on The Aga Khan at the Belem Palace on July 20, 2017, in recognition of his efforts in uplifting lives around the world. Photo by Antonio Pedrosa
2017
Bushenyi, Uganda
His Excellency Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda, presents His Highness the Aga Khan with the Most Excellent Order of the Pearl of Africa.
2018
Quai d'Orsay, Paris, France
The highest French national medal of honour was bestowed upon the Aga Khan at a ceremony at le Quai d’Orsay by France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian in commemoration of the Aga Khan’s Diamond Jubilee, commemorating 60 years as Imam (spiritual leader) of the world’s Shia Ismaili Muslim community.
2018
Windsor SL4 1NJ, United Kingdom
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, prior to dinner at Windsor Castle on March 8, 2018, in Windsor, England. Queen Elizabeth II is hosting a private dinner in honor of the diamond jubilee of his leadership as Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslim Community. Photo by Dominic Lipinski
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(In this remarkable collection of talks given over the pas...)
In this remarkable collection of talks given over the past five years, the Aga Khan surveys the modern world and sets out the principles that inform his vision for change. Again and again, he returns to three cornerstones: democracy, pluralism, and civil society. Democracy, he writes, is always fragile, requiring nurturing in ways that are practical and flexible. Pluralism must be embraced so that it exists in both fact and spirit. And a diverse and engaged civil society, which he broadly defines as including doctors' and journalists' associations, women's groups, social movements, and trade unions, must be supported in countries around the globe. In a world too often divided along economic, political, ethnic, and religious lines, the Aga Khan's words are welcome, going right to the heart of the most difficult challenges the world faces today. Eloquent, inspiring, and deeply challenging, they express hope and conviction that profound change is possible. In this remarkable collection of talks given over the past five years, the Aga Khan surveys the modern world and sets out the principles that inform his vision for change. Again and again, he returns to three cornerstones: democracy, pluralism, and civil society. Democracy, he writes, is always fragile, requiring nurturing in ways that are practical and flexible. Pluralism must be embraced so that it exists in both fact and spirit. And a diverse and engaged civil society, which he broadly defines as including doctors' and journalists' associations, women's groups, social movements, and trade unions, must be supported in countries around the globe. In a world too often divided along economic, political, ethnic, and religious lines, the Aga Khan's words are welcome, going right to the heart of the most difficult challenges the world faces today. Eloquent, inspiring, and deeply challenging, they express hope and conviction that profound change is possible.
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Ethnicity:
Aga Khan IV is of Arab, English, and Italian descent.
Aga Khan IV was born Karim al-Husayni Shah on December 13, 1936, in Geneva, Switzerland to Prince Aly Khan, and his first wife, Princess Tajuddawlah Aly Khan, the eldest daughter of the 3rd Baron Churston. He has a brother, Prince Amyn, and two half-siblings from his parents' other marriages.
Aga Khan spent his childhood in Nairobi, Kenya, where he received his early education through private tutoring. Later, he was enrolled in the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland, the most expensive boarding school in Europe. Then he attended Harvard University where he switched to majoring in History after flunking an engineering course. In 1957, when his grandfather passed away, he was thrust into the position of the Aga Khan (IV). Two years later, he graduated from Harvard with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History (with Cum Laude honors).
Following the death of his grandfather, the Aga Khan III, Aga Khan IV became the 49th Imam of the Nizari Ismailis, at the age of 20. Upon taking the position, he intended to continue his grandfather’s work towards building modern institutions to improve the quality of life of the Nizari Ismailis.
Aga Khan founded Nation Media Group, a Kenyan media company, and has also been involved in other business ventures such as luxury hotels. He owns and operates the largest horse racing and breeding operation in France, and other breeding and stud farms in Europe.
Aga Khan is the founder and chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), one of the largest private development networks in the world. AKDN agencies operate in the fields of health, education, culture, rural development, institution-building and the promotion of economic progress, mostly in developing countries.
Aga Khan is a leading business magnate and owns hundreds of racehorses, valuable stud farms, an exclusive yacht club on Sardinia, a private island in the Bahamas, two Bombardier jets, a £100 million high-speed yacht, and several estates around the world.
(In this remarkable collection of talks given over the pas...)
2008Aga Khan IV is a direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammad through his cousin and son-in-law Ali, the first Imam, and his wife Fatima, the Prophet's daughter, is the hereditary Imam (spiritual leader) of 15 million Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, who live mainly in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, but also in western Europe and North America.
Aga Khan does not shrink from the political upheavals and changes encompassing the world of the twenty-first century. Declaring no conflict between democracy and Islam, he insists on recognition of the social and political roots of terrorism. "When we know the real causes of what drives people to desperation," he said in a 2004 interview, "then we can get a grasp on it." For him "diplomatic and economic solutions" have priority.
Aga Khan emphasized social issues such as material development, education, interracial harmony, and confidence in religion. He encouraged the Nizari Ismailis settled in the industrialized world to contribute towards the progress of communities in the developing world through various development programs. Since taking on his role in 1957, he has dedicated his efforts to improving the quality of life of the most vulnerable populations, while emphasizing the view of Islam as a thinking, spiritual faith: one that teaches compassion and tolerance and that upholds human dignity.
Aga Khan has been a generous advocate of education: he is the founder and chancellor of the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan, which boasts an Institute for Educational Development and a Faculty of Health Sciences. In his commencement address at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1994, he stressed MIT President James Killian's emphasis on the need for "better linkages between science and the humanities." Today he says that in education there is a need to retain "that broad humanism that rests upon both science and the liberal arts," but also a need to draw more upon "the wisdom of different cultures."
Foremost in his pursuit of cultural encounters is his involvement in urban development, housing, and Islamic culture centering on architecture. Striving to preserve the spirit of Islam in architecture, he established the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT and Harvard in 1979, a program linked to the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and the Historic Cities Program. Focusing on restoration and the preservation of the values and practice of architecture, the MIT/Harvard program involves both research and teaching in the architecture of the Islamic world, and strives to create ties between MIT and Harvard and universities throughout the Muslim world.
Driving these concerns is the Aga Khan's desire to foster mutual understanding between East and West and between Islam and the West. He deplores the lack of understanding between the two sides, but sees the West's misunderstanding of Islam as more weighty. In that same MIT commencement address he declared, "The Islamic world is remarkably poorly understood by the West - almost a terra incognita." The economic power and the religious diversity of the Islamic world, representing nearly one-quarter of the world's total population, he said, must be rigorously and openly addressed. He urges the universities in the West to help "build a bridge across the gulf of knowledge which separates the Islamic World from the West."
A staunch defender of tolerance and pluralism, the Aga Khan continues to support unfailingly "diplomatic and economic solutions" in order to achieve justice for the resolution of worldwide conflicts.
Quotations:
"There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation, and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark."
"The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know."
"Conflict situations are driven by concepts of victory, power, and elimination of inherited culture, and not by the underlying values of civilization. There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally, we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it. The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations."
"Tolerance, openness, and understanding of other peoples' cultures, social structures, values, and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world."
"Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence."
"Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world’s peoples."
Aga Khan is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Stories of opulent villas, fine racing horses, and weight-matched in gold and diamonds, come with the name Aga Khan, but the Aga Khan IV is best known as a philanthropist seriously engaged in supporting the lives and development of Muslims all over the world - continuing his family's tradition of service in global affairs. The young Aga Khan was a competitive downhill skier, and he skied for Iran (at that time led by the Shah) in the 1964 Winter Olympics.
In 1969, Aga Khan married a former British model Sarah Frances Croker-Poole, who assumed the title of Begum Salimah Aga Khan. They had three children; one daughter, Princess Zahra Aga Khan, and two sons, Prince Rahim Aga Khan and Prince Hussain Aga Khan. The couple remained married for 25 years but they separated in 1984 after he became engaged in multiple extra-marital affairs. Their marriage officially ended in 1995, after 11 years of separation.
In 1998, Aga Khan got married to Gabriele zu Leiningen, who assumed the title of Begum Inaara Aga Khan. The couple had a son, Prince Aly Muhammad Aga Khan, born in 2000. This marriage also ended due to his infidelity. The couple divorced after several years in 2014.
