Farewell Aga Khan
Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, Aga Khan IV, hereditary Imam of the world’s 12-15 million Shia Ismaili Muslims, died recently in Lisbon, Portugal. What a life he led.
The Aga Khan (Great Khan as he was universally known) was born in Geneva, Switzerland and spent much of his flamboyant life jet-setting around Europe and North America. His charming, much younger sister, Princess Yasmin, attended the International School in Geneva with me. The young Aga Khan went to the world’s most exclusive boys’ school up Lake Geneva, le Rosey. I didn’t want to go there because it was boys only – though many of them were princlings from the Arabian Gulf (still not changed yet to the ‘Trump Gulf’).
Karim’s ostensible religious mission was to aid and lead the scattered Ismaili community in Asia, North America, and Africa. But he spent much of his time racing fast cars, throwing opulent parties, and hobnobbing with movie stars and other gorgeous women. Not so strictly Islamic. In some ways, the Aga Khan resembled that other world-famous playboy and bon vivant, Fiat’s Gianni Agnelli.
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