Word: khans
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...Khan III, who had served as the president of the League of Nations between 1937 and 1938, dictated in his will that a young man with a modern attitude would be the right leader for the new “atomic...
...Once Karim became the Aga Khan, the Islamic history concentrator no longer led a student’s life...
...Khan III] plucked K right out of the College,” said David H. Rhinelander ’58, one of Karim’s freshman roommates in Wigglesworth Hall. “He moved to a hotel and had to begin to run his empire while he was a student...
...interview in the independent documentary “An Islamic Conscience: The Aga Khan and the Ismailis,” the Aga Khan said he was “probably the only undergraduate in the history of that place that had two secretaries and a personal assistant...
...While most Shias believe this imam disappeared in the ninth century and await his return, Ismailis believe in a “living imam,” the Aga Khan, who is vested with ultimate worldly and spiritual authority. Ismailis consider Karim the 49th imam and the fourth Aga Khan—a courtesy title meaning “great king” that was bestowed on the family by the King of Persia in the 1830s...