" 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 III was succeeded as Aga Khan by his grandson Karim Aga Khan, who is the present Imam of the Ismaili Muslims.

He is buried in at the Mausoleum of Aga Khan, on the Nile in Aswan, Egypt.

Enmebaragesi's successor, Aga, is said to have fought with Gilgamesh of Uruk, the fifth king of that city.

Aga cookers can also make a contribution to space heating, although it is not true that they can heat an entire house, despite persistent claims to the contrary, presumably arising because the cookers look similar to the many types of central-heating range such as the ' Stanley ' or the ' Rayburn ' Range, also made by the AGA Rangemaster Group.

During her time in the Philippines, Torres learned to speak Tagalog, the main language of the country and she had a four-year relationship with Filipino actor Aga Muhlach, who is now married to Charlene Gonzalez, Miss Universe 1994 top 6 finalist.

He is also known through other literary references, where he and his son Aga of Kish are portrayed as contemporary rivals of Dumuzid, the Fisherman and Gilgamesh, early rulers of Uruk.

The earliest known copy of volume 5 of the Canon of Medicine dated 1052 is held in the collection of the Aga Khan and is to be housed in the Aga Khan Museum planned for Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The Aga Saga is a sub-genre of the family saga of literature.

The nickname " Aga Saga " is sometimes used condescendingly about this type of fiction.

A lot of what I write into the books is bleak and challenging but I will be the Queen of the Aga saga to my dying day.

Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, the 49th Imam of the Ismaili Muslims and present Aga Khan, was a nephew to Prince Sadruddin, and is the founder and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network.

* A fund raiser for the Alzheimer's Association is named in her honor by her daughter, Yasmin Aga Khan, who has been the hostess for these events and a major sponsor of Alzheimer's Disease charities and awareness programs.

Aga Khan (; also transliterated as Aqa Khan and Agha Khan ) is said by author Farhad Daftary to be the hereditary title of the Imam of the Nizari Ismaili community ( although in a legal proceeding, the Aga Khan III noted that Aga Khan is not a title, but instead a sort of alias or " pet name " that was given to the Aga Khan I when he was a young man ).

For these reasons, I appoint my grandson Karim, the son of my own son, Aly Salomone Khan to succeed to the title of Aga Khan and to the Imam and Pir of all Shia Ismailian followers.

* Aga Khan IV, Imam of the Ismaili Muslims, and Founder & Chairman of the AKDN

In 969 the Fatimids were led by General Gawhar al-Siqilli with his Kutama army, under the moral flagship of Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi, the Shiite Ismaili Imam of that time and ancestor of the current Aga Khan, to establish a new capital for the Fatimid dynasty.

* 1936 – His Highness Prince Shah Karim al-Husseini Aga Khan IV, Present Imam ( leader ) of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims

* 1957 – Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.

* 1877 – Aga Khan III, Shia Imam ( d. 1957 )

* July 11 – His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan becomes the 49th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims at age 20.

* July 11 – Aga Khan III, 48th Nizari Imam ( b. 1877 )

In 1933, under the direction of the Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III, the Islamic Research Association was developed.

The Aga Khan being the direct descendant of Prophet Mohammad through Imam Ali and Fatima-taz-Zahara ( the daughter of Prophet Mohammad and wife of Imam Ali ), the Noor has been passed down through them to him.

In 1933, under the direction of the Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III ( 1877 – 1957 ), the Islamic Research Association was developed.