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4 days ago · Aga Khan III (1887–1957) took several measures to bring his followers closer to the main body of the Muslims. The Ismāʿīlīs, however, still have not mosques but jamāʿat khānah s (“gathering houses”), and their mode of worship bears little resemblance to that of the Muslims generally.
3 days ago · Sayyid Mahdi Ali (1837–1907), popularly known by his title Mohsin al-Mulk, had succeeded Sayyid Ahmad as leader and convened a deputation of some 36 Muslim leaders, headed by the Aga Khan III, that in 1906 called on Lord Minto (viceroy from 1905–10) to articulate the special national interests of India’s Muslim community. Minto promised ...
1 day ago · Emperor Hiro Hito of Japan stayed twice and the bathtub of the Royal Suite was filled with donkey milk for Begum, wife of Aga Khan III, a wealthy Persian prince. Winston Churchill smoked his famous Havana cigars in the lounges and other famous guests include US President Eisenhower, painter Salvador Dali and writer Marguerite Yourcenar.
1 day ago · He visited Aga Khan III, stayed at Dartington Hall, toured Denmark, Switzerland, and Germany from June to mid-September 1930, then went on into the Soviet Union. [99] In April 1932 Tagore, intrigued by the Persian mystic Hafez, was hosted by Reza Shah Pahlavi.
4 days ago · Nevertheless, the diasporic trajectories and relationships to the homeland are similar for both the fictional Shamsis and the real Khojas: Khoja Ismailis Muslim diasporic communities in East Africa, the Caribbean, and North America that emigrated under the leadership of Aga Khan III in the nineteenth century from Kutch, Sindh, Katiawar, and ...
5 days ago · Sir Aga Khan III: Remembering a great Muslim leader. RIZWAN JAMIL | Updated Nov 03, 2017 |. Sir Aga Khan III played a pivotal role in the Pakistan Movement.
3 days ago · While Jinnah and the Aga Khan III led among the British Indian delegation a deputation of 16 Muslims, no Congress Party deputation joined the first session, as Gandhi and his leading lieutenants were all in jail at the time.