Rahim Al-Hussaini has been named the brand new Aga Khan, non secular chief of the world’s tens of millions of Ismaili Muslims.
He was designated because the Aga Khan V, the fiftieth hereditary imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, in his father’s will. His father died on Tuesday in Portugal.
The Aga Khan is taken into account by his followers to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad and is handled as a head of state.
The Aga Khan Improvement Community and the Ismaili non secular neighborhood introduced earlier that His Highness Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV and forty ninth hereditary imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, died surrounded by his household.
It mentioned his burial and will-reading will likely be held within the coming days, adopted by an homage ceremony.
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