Prince karim aga khan biography
Prince karim aga khan biography
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Aga Khan
Imām of the Nizari Ismāʿīli Shias
This article is about the hereditary title. For the incumbent, see Aga Khan IV. For other uses, see Aga Khan (disambiguation).
Aga Khan (Persian: آقاخان, Arabic: آغا خان; also transliterated as Aqa Khan and Agha Khan)[1] is a title held by the Imām of the NizariIsmāʿīliShias.
Since 1957, the holder of the title has been the 49th Imām, Prince Shah Karim al-Husseini, Aga Khan IV (born 1936).
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Title
The title is made up of the titles "agha" and "khan". The Turkish "agha" is "aqa" (Āqā) in Persian. The word "agha" comes from the Old Turkic and Mongolian "aqa", meaning "elder men",[2][3] and means something like "master" or "lord." "Khan" means king or ruler in Turkish and Mongolian languages.[4]
According to Farhad Daftary,[5] a scholar of the Isma'ili movement, Aga Khan[6][7] is an honorific title bestowed on Hasan Ali Shah (1800–1881), the 46th Imām of Niz