Word: ismailis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tall handsome youth raced through the rain at London Airport to a waiting plane. With His Highness Prince Karim, fourth Ago Khan, 20, and 49th Imam of the world's Ismaili Moslems, was his father, Prince Aly Khan, bypassed by the late Aga in deciding his successor. Two days later in the African city of Dar Es Salaam in Tanganyika, on the western shore of the Indian Ocean, Aga Khan IV was acclaimed in the first of many installation ceremonies that will take him on a year's traveling in Africa, the Mideast and southern Asia...
...week swift-winged time came to an end for the legendary old Prince of Islam. In a quiet lakeside villa at Versoix, Switzerland, his huge bulk wasted to a mere 132 Ibs., His Highness Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, the Aga Khan III and spiritual leader of some 20 million Ismaili Moslems throughout the East, the Middle East and Africa, died...
Died. Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, the Aga Khan III, 79, leader of some 20 million Moslems of the Ismaili sect; of a heart attack; at his villa in Versoix, Switzerland (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Khan is considered the most likely candidate to succeed his father as leader of the Ismaili Moslems. His older half-brother, Aly Khan, is reportedly not acceptable to them...
Dean McGeorge Bundy announced yesterday that the Aga Khan Professorship, recently established by the Moslem religious leader of the Ismaili community, with the intention of "preserving and transmitting to future generations knowledge of the rich heritage of the Iranian past," will become effective on July...