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Name: Aga Khan
Variant Name: Aga Khan I, Aga Khan III
Gender: Male
Occupations: spiritual leader

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Biography of Aga Khan
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Aga Khan (chief commander) is the title of the imam, or spiritual leader, of the sect of Moslems known as Nizari Ismailis. The title was granted in 1818 by the Shah of Persia. The Ismailis are Shias, one of the two great sects of Islam. Unlike the...


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Aga Khan may refer to: Aga Khan III , Sultan Mahommed Shah , 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, founder of the All-India Muslim League, and former President of the League of Nations Aga Khan IV , Karim al-Hussaini , incumbent of the title 'Aga...


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Aga Khan Summary
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AGA KHAN (Pers., Ᾱghā Khān). First conferred in 1817 on the Ismāʿīlī imam (spiritual leader) Ḥasan ʿAlī Shāh (d. 1881) by the Qajar shah of Iran, this hereditary title is now...
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Aga Khan Information
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This article is about the hereditary title. For the incumbent, see Aga Khan IV. For other uses, see Aga Khan (disambiguation). Aga Khan (Persian: آقا خان ) is the hereditary title of the Imam (spiritual and general leader) of the Ismaili...


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The Independent - London
Obituary: The Begum Aga Khan
07/06/2000: 1,376 words, approx. 5 pages
THE BEGUM Aga Khan was a statuesque figure who dominated social events in the South of France for many decades. Born as Yvette Larbusse, she married the Aga Khan (grandfather of the present Aga) as his fourth wife in 1944. The Aga Khan...
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The Washington Post
The Spirit Behind the Aga Khan Awards
11/27/2004: 999 words, approx. 3 pages
In the West, the Aga Khan has an outsize profile as a multibillionaire, owner of fast horses and fixture on British society pages, where the odds are being weighed that divorce from his second wife, the Begum Inaara, a former German pop singer with...
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AP News
Kabul's old city gets major renovation
1/20/2008: 970 words, approx. 3 pages
Last year the streets in parts of the old city dropped by nine feet.The reason? A massive garbage haul. Just about every unemployed man in Murad Khane was recruited to clean up years of litter and mud piled on top of the streets. By the...
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Kabul's old city getting face lift
1/21/2008: 970 words, approx. 3 pages
Last year the streets in parts of the old city dropped by nine feet.The reason? A massive garbage haul. Just about every unemployed man in Murad Khane was recruited to clean up years of litter and mud piled on top of the streets. By the...
 


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