" Other prestigious architectural awards are the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture, the Alvar Aalto Medal ( Finland ), the Carlsberg Architecture Prize ( Denmark ), and the Governor General's Awards ( Canada ).

Aga Khan I (; or, less commonly but more correctly (; ), was the title accorded to Hasan Ali Shah (; ; 1804 in Kohak, Iran – 1881 in Bombay, India ), the governor of Kirman, 46th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims, and prominent Muslim leader in Iran and later in the Indian Subcontinent.

Fath Ali Shah also appointed Hasan Ali Shah as governor of Qumm and bestowed upon him the honorific of Aga Khan.

Hasan Ali Shah thus become known as Aga Khan Mahallati, and the title of Aga Khan was inherited by his successors.

Aga Khan I's mother later moved to India where she died in 1851.

The case, commonly referred to as the Aga Khan Case, was heard by Sir Joseph Arnould.

Hasan Ali Shah was succeeded as Imam by his eldest son Aqa Ali Shah, who became Aga Khan II.

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" The Aga Khan ".

Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III GCSI GCMG GCIE GCVO PC ( November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957 ) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims.

He was born in Karachi ( then under British colonial rule ), to Aga Khan II and his third wife, Nawab A ' lia Shamsul-Muluk, who was a granddaughter of Iran Fath Ali Shah of Persia ( Qajar dynasty ).

The Aga Khan traveled in distant parts of the world to receive the homage of his followers, and with the object either of settling differences or of advancing their welfare by pecuniary help and personal advice and guidance.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

Under the leadership of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III, the first half of the 20th century was a period of significant development for the Ismā ' īlī community.

The Jubilees of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III, are well remembered.

In India and later Pakistan, social development institutions were established, in the words of Aga Khan, " for the relief of humanity ".

According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

In 1926, the Aga Khan gave a cup ( the Aga Khan Trophy ) to be awarded to the winners of an international team show jumping competition held at the annual horse show of the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland every first week in August.

* Aga Khan Academies ( AKA )

These range from the establishment of the US $ 450 million international Aga Khan University with its Faculty of Health Sciences and teaching hospital based in Karachi, the expansion of schools for girls and medical centers in the Hunza region ( one of the remote parts of Northern Pakistan bordering on China and Afghanistan that is densely populated with Nizari Ismailis ), to the establishment of the Aga Khan Rural Support Program in Gujarat, India – and the extension of existing urban hospitals and primary health care centers in Tanzania and Kenya.

Riots broke out in East Africa during the time of the games and the Aga Khan was accordingly besieged with cables and questions from East African Nizari Ismaili leaders, some of whom had flown to Innsbruck, asking their imam for guidance.

During this time, the Aga Khan emphasized to his followers the importance of fostering positive relations with different ethnicities – a message highly appropriate considering the racially tense atmosphere in East Africa at the time between blacks and South Asians.

" Meanwhile, in a paper discussing the theology of East African followers of the Aga Khan, H. S Morris quotes a Nizari Ismaili that was living in East Africa and educated in England, but, who had never visited India, as saying: Our Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan, is like your Jesus Christ.

The Aga Khan Development Network ( AKDN ) is a group of private, non-denominational development agencies that seek to empower communities and individuals to improve living conditions and opportunities, in sub-Saharan Africa, Central and South Asia, and the Middle East.

Air Mali, formerly Compagnie Aérienne du Mali ( abbreviated as CAM ), is an airline headquartered in the Immueble Tomota in Bamako, Mali, that was formed by the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development through its subsidiary IPS, West Africa and the government of Mali in April 2005.

The Aga Khans, a unique dynasty of temporal / religious leadership, leading an offshoot of Shia Islam in Central and South Asia, once ranking among British India's princely states, continue to the present day.

In 1979, the foundation stone was laid for what was to become the first ‘ Ismaili Centre ’ in London ’ s South Kensington neighbourhood .< ref > See Aga Khan IV, Speech on the occaision of the Foundation Ceremony of the Ismaili Jamatkhana and Centre, London, UK, September 6, 1979.

Since his ascension to the Imamate of Nizari Ismailis in 1957, the Aga Khan has been involved in complex political and economic changes which have affected his Nizari Ismaili followers, including the independence of African countries from colonial rule, expulsion of Asians from Uganda, the independence of Central Asian countries such as Tajikistan from the former Soviet Union and the continuous turmoil in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

An Ismaili Centre in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, firmly located in the Persian-speaking Muslim world, reflects and marks the centuries of Ismaili presence in Central Asia and surrounding regions .< ref > See “ Address by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Foundation Stone Ceremony of The Ismaili Centre ( Dushanbe, Tajikistan ” on August 30, 2003.

Available at < http :// www. akdn. org / Content / 592 > and “ Aga Khan Announces First Ismaili Centre in Central Asia ”, Press Release on August 30, 2002 at < http :// www. akdn. org / Content / 488 .></ ref > Opened on October 12, 2009 by Republic ’ s President, Emamoli Rahmon and the Aga Khan, its architecture blends a diverse range of artisanal and craft traditions of the region and draws upon as inspiration of the grand courtyards of Samarkand and Khiva in Uzbekistan as well as the 10th century Samanid mausoleum.

In cooperation with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings will release three volumes of its initially seven volumes ’ Central Asian Music series on March 30, 2010.

* Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia

In 2000 the Aga Khan Trust for Culture established a music initiative with the goal of assisting to preserve Central Asia's musical heritage.

Known as the Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia ( AKMICA ), the programme works with tradition-bearers throughout Central Asia to ensure that their traditions are passed down to a new generation of artists and audiences, inside and outside the region.

Ben-Horin described his impressions of Change Nation and of related discussions with American Ambassador to Romania, Mark Gitenstein ; Aga Khan Development Network official Nick McKinlay ; and Central and Eastern European activists such as Vlad Atanasiu in a post on the blog entitled, “ Tension and possibility — The new dynamics of change.

The Pantaron Mountain Range ( Central Cordillera of Mindanao ) forms part of the natural border between the municipality and the Davao provinces in the west while the Aga Mountains between Valencia City and Quezon.

In May 2012 Wu Man released her album Borderlands, the final installment of the acclaimed ten-volume “ Music of Central Asia ” ethnographic series, produced by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Culture Heritage, that traces the history of the pipa in China.

In 1939, Prince Aly Aga Khan joined the French Foreign Legion and served with its cavalry division in Egypt and the Middle East.

The first Ismaili Centre in the Middle East was opened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on March 26, 2008 by the Aga Khan in the presence of senior members of the ruling family of Dubai .< ref > See < http :// www. theismaili. org / cms / 252 / Opening-of-the-Ismaili-Centre-Dubai > which includes links to speeches, press releases and photographs covering the event .</ ref > The Centre, built on land donated by the Shaykh Mohammed b. Rashid al-Maktoum, Dubai ’ s ruler in 1982, is the first such Centre in the Middle East.

The building draws its inspiration from Cairo ’ s Fatimid architectural heritage, a dynasty founded by the Aga Khan ’ s forefathers and previous Imams of the Nizari Ismaili community in the 10th century .< ref > See “ Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Foundation Laying Ceremony of the Ismaili Centre ( Dubai, United Arab Emirates ” on December 13, 2003 at < http :// www. akdn. org / Content / 594 > and “ Aga Khan Announces First Ismaili Centre in Middle East ,” Press Release on December 13, 2003 at < http :// www. akdn. org / Content / 439 .></ ref >