As leader of a branch of Shiite Islam, the Aga Khan mixed business projects and humanitarian initiatives as he built a ...

Image The Aga Khan IV in 1960 with a scale model of a development project he was overseeing in Sardinia. It was centered on Porto Cervo on the Costa Smeralda.Credit...Slim Aarons, via Hulton ...

The Aga Khan also courted controversy in 1989 when he withdrew his horses from England in a dispute over drug testing. Over ...

the Aga Khan IV exerted influence around the world through meetings with heads of state and leading ventures as varied as the opulent Porto Cervo resort and polo complex on Sardinia’s ritzy ...

An urbane but almost mythical figure who saw no contradiction between his life’s religious and secular aspects ...

He, the charismatic leader of the Ismailis in the world, for everyone here, in Sardinia, has always been Prince Aga Khan Karim. Respect and honor earned with the tact of doing and the smile of ...

He was a keen race-goer and skier and developed the exclusive Costa Smeralda yachting resort in Sardinia His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, who has died aged 88, combined his role as 49th Imam ...

"Prince Karim Aga Khan IV was a promoter of Sardinia because he created, in a splendid but difficult to valorize territorial context, a virtuous development model for a territory and an entire island.

a leading yachting destination in Sardinia.” The Aga Khan also courted controversy in 1989 when he withdrew his horses from England in a dispute over drug testing. Over half of the 90 ...

Aga Khan IV, the 49th hereditary imam of the Nizari Isma’ilism sect of Shia Islam, has died in Lisbon, Portugal. The ...

HE was the billionaire philanthropist that King Charles counted as a close friend – and who made the late Queen’s horse-racing dreams come true. The Aga Khan, spiritual leader to 15 million ...