Khan, who became the spiritual leader of millions in the world from Ismaili Muslims at the age of twenty, died as a university student at Harvard University and poured a material empire based on billions of dollars in the tenth in building homes, hospitals and schools in developing countries. It was 88.
The Aga Khan Foundation and the Ismaili religious community announced on its websites that His Highness Prince Karim Al -Husseini, Aga Khan IV and the Hereditary Imam of the Shiite Ismaili Muslims, died on Tuesday in Portugal surrounded by his family.
They said that a announcement of his successor would come later.
His followers are considered from his direct descendants from the Prophet Muhammad, and his prince was Prince Karima Agha Khan IV asking when his grandfather passed away to his father Pay Boy as a successor to the Diaspora leadership of the Ismaili Shiite Muslims, saying that his followers should lead them by a young man “grew up in the middle of the new era.”
For decades, Aga Khan has evolved into a business pole and a good, moving between spiritual and worldly and mixing it easily.
Queen Aga Khan, who, as head of state, dealt with the title of “His Highness” by Queen Elizabeth in July 1957, two weeks after his grandfather Aga Khan III made him a heir to the family of the 1300 -year -old family as a Salafi community, the sect.
Agha Khan fourth became on October 19, 1957, in Dar Al Salam, Tanzania, immediately where his grandfather had previously been equal to diamonds in gifts from his followers.
He had left Harvard to be next to his sick grandfather, and returned to school after 18 months with a footnote and a deep sense of responsibility.
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“I was a university student who knew what was his work for the rest of his life,” he said in an interview with Vanity Fair. “I don’t think anyone in my position would be prepared.”
He was a defender of Islamic culture and values, and it was widely considered to be the creator of bridges between Islamic societies and the West despite – or perhaps because of – his reservation to participate in politics.
He paid a Canadian political scandal after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family took a vacation on the private island of Aga Khan in the Bahamas in 2017.
Trudeau was later found that he violated federal morals by accepting free vacation, while AGA Khan’s business projects were registered to pressure government contracts and investments.
Trudeau described as Aga Khan, a “friend of the close family” for decades and said he did not consider the Bahamas leave leave as a conflict, but he apologized for making the trip.
“I lost a very good friend, a friend of my father and a friend of mine,” Trudeau said during a reception for the New Year in Ottawa shortly after Agha Khan’s death.
Trudeau described as Aga Khan as “a very sympathetic world leader, a vision man, from faith, and the amazing generosity” that was “excited by Canada.”
The Aga Khan Development Network, its main charitable organization, dealt mainly with health care, housing, education and rural development issues.
A network of hospitals bearing his name is scattered in countries where health care lacks the poorest, including Bangladesh, Tajikistan and Afghanistan, where tens of millions of dollars spent to develop local economies.
His eye for construction and design pushed him to create an architecture award and Islamic architecture programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard. Recovered ancient Islamic structures around the world.
Accounts differ regarding the history and place of Prince Karim Agha Khan. According to “Who is in France”, he was born on December 13, 1936, in Cryx de Jinthod, near Geneva, Switzerland, son of Joan Yardi Buller and Lie Khan.
It is difficult to measure the extent of Aga Khan’s financial empire. Some reports were estimated that his personal wealth is in billions.
The Isles – a sect originally focused in India but expanded in large societies in East Africa, Central and Southern Asia and the Middle East – considers it from the duty of up to 10 % of their income as a host.
He told Vanity Fair in 2012: “We have no idea about the accumulation of evil wealth. To society,” he told Vanity Fair in 2012.
He survived three sons and daughter.
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