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" 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.
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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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 and mother
Born in Turin, Italy to a father of an Iranian origin ( Aga Khan III ), who was born in Karachi ( then under British colonial rule ), and Italian mother.
Influenced by the death of her mother, for whom she cared for many years, from Alzheimer's disease, Yasmin Aga Khan serves on the Board of Directors, as Vice Chairman, Alzheimer's and Related Disorders Association.
The 2009 documentary I Remember Better When I Paint features a stirring interview with Yasmin Aga Khan describing how her mother took up painting while struggling with Alzheimer's and produced beautiful works of art.

Aga and later
The couple's first child, Prince Karim, was born in Geneva, seven months later ; they also had a second son, Prince Amyn Muhammad Aga Khan.
She was then pregnant with their only child, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, who was born seven months later.
The Aga Khan's brother, Prince Amyn, was born less than a year later.
However, a little over six years later – on October 8, 2004 – an announcement was made that the Aga Khan and Begum Inaara were to seek a divorce.
Available at < http :// www. amaana. org / agakhan / londonctr9-79. htm .></ ref > The high-profile building which was opened by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ( b. 1925 ; r. 1979-1990 ) in the presence of His Highness the Aga Khan in April 1985 was an important chapter in a new era of Ismaili presence in Europe .< ref > See Notes from Press Release titled “ His Highness the Aga Khan in the United Kingdom to mark Golden Jubilee Visit ,” July 2, 2008 and available at < http :// www. akdn. org / Content / 674 .> Photographs and the speech by Margaret Thatcher on the occasion can be found at < http :// www. amaana. org / agakhan / londonctr9-79. htm ..></ ref > Several months later in August, another Ismaili Centre was opened in Vancouver ’ s Burnaby district ( Canada ) by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney ( b. 1939 ; r. 1984-1993 ).< ref > The Foundation Stone Ceremony was conducted on July 24, 1982 and the building was officially opened on August 23, 1985.
According to the Turkish historian Silahdar Findikli Mehmed Aga, its leader Karposh initially was a vojvod of haiduks near Dospat, in present-day Bulgaria, but later the Turks named him chief of Christian auxiliary forces in the area between Sofia, Veles, Dojran, Kjustendil and Nevrokop.
Aga would later on appear in most Regal movies, either as support or lead as the 1980s transitioned to the 1990s.
Hiring publicist Ethel Ramos as his manager, Aga would later on capture more leading man roles and endorsements.
Examples are ( from as early as the 18th century ): Zaynab Begum, Begum Hazrat Mahal-who later divorced Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, Mughal princesses Jahanara Begum and Roshanara Begum, and Begum Inaara Aga Khan, Begum Nusrat Bhutto, Begum Khaleda Zia.
According to the Turkish historian Silahdar Findikli Mehmed Aga, its leader Karposh initially was voivode of haiduks in the vicinity of Dospat, in present-day Bulgaria, but later the Turks named him chief of Christian auxiliary forces in the area between Sofia, Veles, Dojran, Kjustendil and Nevrokop.

Aga and India
* He married, on November 2, 1896, in Poona, India, Shahzadi Begum, his first cousin and a granddaughter of Aga Khan I.
He wrote a number of books and papers two of which are of immense importance namely ( 1 ). India in Transition, about the prepartition politics of India and ( 2 ). World Enough & Time-The Memoirs of Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan III, his autobiography.
In India, the Beighton Cup and the Aga Khan tournament commenced within ten years.
This was put to practice in the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme ( AKRSP ) http :// www. akdn. org / AKF in the Gujarat province of India.
He was arrested on the morning of August 9 after Gandhi's call to the British to Quit India and sent to the Aga Khan Palace for imprisonment.
In 1887, the colonial rulers of India, the Secretary of State for India acting through the Viceroy of India, formally recognized the title Aga Khan.
For these services, and others which Aga Khan I rendered to Sir Charles Napier in his conquest of Sindh in 1843 – 44, the Aga Khan received a pension from the British Government of India.
During his visit to India in 1983, the Aga Khan said:
" 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.
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.
Muslim League, political organization of India and Pakistan, founded 1906 as the All-India Muslim League by Aga Khan III.
The Aga Khan III used this occasion to speak out for the expansion of all types of educational facilities in India.
In 1998, the third such ‘ Ismaili Centre ’ was opened in Lisbon, Portugal .< ref > See Aga Khan IV, “ Speech at the Foundation Stone Ceremony of the Lisbon Ismaili Centre ,” December 18, 1996, available at < http :// www. iis. ac. uk / view_article. asp? ContentID = 101402 .> and Press Release dated July 11, 1998 on the occasion of the inauguration of Centro Ismaili, “ Aga Khan and President Sampaio Speak on Faith and Civil Society ,” available at < http :// www. akdn. org / Content / 527 .></ ref > The Centre draws inspiration from regional influences of the Moorish architectural heritage such as the Alhambra in Granada as well as that of other Muslim cultural forms such as that of Fatehpur Sikri in India .< ref > Richardson, Phyllis.
On this subject, at the Council of Four on 17 May 1919, he introduced representatives of Muslim India ( including the Aga Khan ) and urged that Muslim peoples were beginning to see the Conference as " taking sides against Islam ".

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