Accession to Imamat of H.H. Prince Karim, Agakhan IV -1957-07-11

Year:

1957

Date:

Thursday, 1957, July 11

Location:

Worldwide

H.H. Prince Karim, Agakhan IV became the Spirutual leader of the worldwide Ismaili community at the age of 20, on July 11, 1957

Ismaili History 836 - PRINCE KARIM AGA KHAN IV (1376/1957....)

He was born in Geneva on 28th Ramdan, 1355/December 13, 1936. Lady Ali Shah (d. 1938) had given his name, Karim. He was born in the wake of cataclysm in the world.

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KARIM AL-HUSAYNI, AGA KHAN IV (1376/1957....) 49TH PRESENT IMAM

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"He was born in Geneva on 28th Ramzan, 1355/December 13, 1936. Lady Aly Shah (d. 1938) had given his name, Karim. He was born in the wake of cataclysm in the world. From the age of four years, he acquired the rudiments of formal education from Miss Doris Lyon, the governess and a friend of his family.