The Aga Khan IV was often referred to as a philanthropist, but the description ignores the spiritual impetus for his work.

The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims at age 20 as a Harvard undergraduate and poured a material empire built on billions of dollars in tithes into building homes,

By bnm Tehran bureau Prince Rahim al-Hussaini has been named the new Aga Khan, becoming spiritual leader of 15mn Ismaili Muslims following the death of his father in Lisbon aged 88. The 53-year-old was appointed in his father's will unsealed on February 5 as the fifth Aga Khan and 50th imam of the Nizari Ismaili branch of Shia Islam,