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.

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.

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

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

In 1305, after the issuing of a fatwa by the scholar Ibn Taymiyyah calling for jihad against all non-Sunni Muslims like the Druze, Alawites, Ismaili, and twelver Shiites, al-Malik al-Nasir inflicted a disastrous defeat on the Druze at Keserwan and forced outward compliance on their part to orthodox Sunni Islam.

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

Daim al-Islam is a book on the rulings of Islam followed by Ismaili Muslims who adhere to the Shi ' a Ismaili Fatimid fiqh.

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

According to the historian Yaqut al-Hamawi, the Böszörmény, ( Izmaleita or Ismaili / Nizari ) denomination of the Muslims who lived in the Kingdom of Hungary in the 10 – 13th centuries, were employed as mercenaries by the kings of Hungary.

In a 2002 interview with the Globe and Mail, Karīm al-Hussainī the 49th Aga Khan of the Ismaili Muslims described Canada as " the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe ", citing it as " a model for the world ".

The leaders of the dynasty were also Shia Ismaili Imams, hence, they had a religious significance to Ismaili Muslims.

), oral address Your Highness and then Sir — The Imam ( spiritual leader ) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims.

Historical groups viewed as highly heterodox by most Muslims include the Kharijites, who took a third view on Ali's succession ( and are today succeeded by the Ibadi ), the Mu ' tazilites, who most famously asserted that the Qur ' an was created, a view which enjoyed Caliphal approval before the time of Mutawakkil, the Qarmatians, a branch of the Seveners within Ismaili Islam who took control of much of the Arabian peninsula in the 9th and 10th century, practiced vegetarianism, took control of the Well of Zamzam and the Ka ' bah, and the Hashashin or Assassins, another Ismaili group, famous for their reclusive lifestyle, manners of indoctrination and assassinations in the years after the First Crusade.

Although he was raised in Europe by his French mother, his father, who was the 48th hereditary Imam of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims, had a strong influence on him.

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.

Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan ( June 13, 1911 – May 12, 1960 ), known as Aly Khan was a son of Aga Khan III, the head of the Ismaili Muslims, and the father of Aga Khan IV.

For Muslims of the Sunni and Ismaili Mustaʿlī persuasions, obligatory salah is prescribed at five periods of the day.

Baghlan is also home to a small community of Ismaili Muslims of Tajik stock, led by the Sayeds of Kayan.

It is used by some Muslims in everyday life, particularly in the Dawoodi Bohra Ismaili community and they believe that this calendar was developed by Ali.

In 2007, after an interview with the Aga Khan, G. Pascal Zachary, of the The New York Times, wrote, " Part of the Aga Khan's personal wealth by him and his family, which his advisers say exceeds $ 1 billion, comes from a dizzyingly complex system of tithes that some of the world's 15 million Ismaili Muslims pay him each year of which is called dasond, which is at least 12. 5 % of each Nizari Ismaili's gross annual income – an amount that he will not disclose but which may reach hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

The Jammatkhana, the central religious institution for all Ismaili Muslims, holds a strong position in the community.

Ismaili Islam also has some of the characteristics associated with esotericism as defined by Faivre, e. g. the belief in an intermediate spiritual sphere mediating between humans and the divine.

Their ancestry from the seven Ismaili imams ( in grey ) and Muhammad is also shown.

Fortunately, descriptions of this event are also preserved in Rashid al-Din ’ s narrative and recounted in the Haft Bab-i Abi Ishaq, an Ismaili book of the 15th century AD.

Following him were Imam Muhtadi and Imam Qahir, also living in concealment from the general population, but in touch with the highest-ranking members of the Ismaili hierarchy ( hudūd ).

An alliance with the caliph of Baghdad meant greater resources for the self-defence of not only the Nizari Ismaili state, but also the broader Muslim world.

They hold the latter to be superior and eternal and this is reflected in their understanding of both the universe and humanity ( This view can also be found in Ismaili Islam — see Batiniyya ).

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 the Ismailis in the aftermath of the Mongol onslaught of the Alamut state in 1256 CE, the need to practice taqiyya became necessary, not only for the protection of the community itself, which was now stateless, but also for safeguarding the line of the Nizari Ismaili Imamate during this period of unrest.

Because of the Druze's Ismaili Shi ' ite origin, they have also been associated with taqiyya.

Some also believe that Imam Ismaili is buried here.

Qadir also commissioned several refutations of Ismaili doctrines, including that written by the Mu ‘ tazili ‘ Ali b. Sa ‘ id al-Istakri ( 1013 ).

It is also said by later sources that the Ismaili Imam-Caliph al-Mustanṣir informed Hassan that his elder son Nizar would be the next Imam.

When his grandfather passed away, the young Prince was thrust into the position of the Aga Khan ( IV ), and he went from being not only a university student but also to replacing his grandfather as the new Nizari Ismaili Imam.

In 1574, Tahmasp also had the 36th Nizari Ismaili Shia Imam Murād Mīrzā executed, due to the perceived political threat he posed.

Mahmud's first campaign to the south was against the Ismaili Fatimid Kingdom at Multan in a bid to curry political favor and recognition with the Abbassid Caliphate ; he also engaged with the Fatimids elsewhere.

The term jamatkhana is also used to refer to spaces used by a number of other Muslim communities with bases in South Asia, such as the Chisti Sufi tariqa, and various branches of the Musta ’ li Ismaili community including the Dawoodi Bohras and Alevi Bohras.

A significantly edited version of the text was also published serially in the Ismaili Crescent ( Dar es Salaam ) between January 8, 1967 and April 2, 1968.

The buildings were not only meant to act as symbolic markers of the Ismaili community ’ s presence in England and Canada, but also as an ambassadorial bridge which would continue to help them develop and maintain relationships with other faith groups and civil society organizations.

The Ismaili Centre in Toronto will be the largest such centre in the English-speaking world .< ref > See “ Aga Khan to Establish Major Academic and Cultural Center and Museum in Canada ” Press Release on October 8, 2002 at < http :// www. akdn. org / Content / 551 .> The Ismaili Centre in Toronto will share a 17. 3 acre plot with a major museum “ dedicated to the acquisition, preservation, display and interpretation of artifacts relating to the intellectual, cultural, artistic, and religious traditions of Muslim communities, past and present .”</ ref > Centres in Houston, Texas and Los Angeles, California are also being planned < http :// www. theismaili. org / cms / 802 / About-the-Ismaili-Centres >.

It also functions as a gathering point for the Ismaili community as it endeavors to understand its own history and thought, including the often neglected fields of esoteric Islam and Shi ‘ ism.