Aga Khan IV
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Prince Shah Karim al-Hussaini, known simply as Aga Khan IV, was the 49th Imam of Nizari Isma'ili Shia Islam from 1957 until his death in 2025. He inherited the Nizari imamate and the title of Aga Khan
Karim al-Husseini in 2014
Al-Husseini skiing for Iran at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Karim al-Husseini receiving a gift of trinitite, residue from the first nuclear bomb detonation, while visiting the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1959.
Karim al-Husseini's aircraft sitting at Entebbe International Airport, Uganda, in 2006
Aly Khan
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Prince Aly Salomone Aga Khan was an Italy-born Ismaili Sayyid who served as Pakistan's ambassador to the United Nations. He was the son of Sultan Muhammad Shah, and the father of Karim al-Hussaini.
Aga Khan IV
…Aga Khan Development Network, a private development network. Karim al-Husseini was born in Geneva, Switzerland, on 13 December 1936, the eldest son of Aly Khan (1911–1960) and his first wife, Taj-ud-dawlah Aga Khan (formerly Joan Yarde-Buller, 1908–1997). His mother was the eldest daughter of the British peer…
Aly Khan in 1949
Rita Hayworth and Aly Khan at their wedding reception in the garden of the Château de l'Horizon, near Cannes (27 May 1949)
Aly Khan mausoleum in Salamiyah