" Ever since the time of my ancestor Ali, the first Imam, that is to say over a period of thirteen hundred years, it has always been the tradition of our family that each Imam chooses his successor at his absolute and unfettered discretion from amongst any of his descendants, whether they be sons or remote male issue and in these circumstances and in view of the fundamentally altered conditions in the world in very recent years due to the great changes which have taken place including the discoveries of atomic science, I am convinced that it is in the best interest of the Shia Muslim Ismailia Community that I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed during recent years and in the midst of the new age and who brings a new outlook on life to his office as Imam.

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 ).

The line of Musa al-Kazim continued until the twelfth Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi who is said to have disappeared at a very young age in Samara ( Iraq ) in the year 260 AH / 873 CE, and is still the awaited Imam by the great majority of Shias at the present time.

Once again, he found this young man who said he was Muhammad son of Imam Ali Ridha ( as ) who remained where he was left.

Mamun al-Rashid took the young Imam Jawad ( as ) with him, and let him live in a nearby house next to the Royal Palace.

According to Shi ' a accounts, after his father's assassination at the will of Al-Mu ' tasim, the Abbasid caliph ordered Umar bin al-Faraj to find a teacher in Medina for the young Imam that would preach hatred toward the Ahl al-Bayt.

Imam al-Hadi would often provide perspectives on literature that al-Junaydi hadn't thought of, and at his young age he had even developed a comprehensive understanding of the Qu ' ran and the revelations within.

Al-Junaydi, impressed and astounded by the young boy, concluded that it could only be by divine causes that the Imam could be so knowledgeable, and in doing so he dropped what animosity he had held towards the family of the Prophet.

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.

Adel Emam is married and has three children: the young director Rami Imam, Sarah Emam, and Mohamed Imam, who also starred in the movie The Yacoubian Building as Taha Shazli.

In her young days, Jahanara Imam was known for her beauty and elegance.

In 1878 or earlier, young Habte-Giorgis, presumed to be one of the Gurage resistance fighters of Imam Bqsa and Hassen Injamo, was captured in a battle by Menelik's neftenyas, the armed foot soldiers and paraded in Ankobere.

`` Sure, we met a barrel of rich men but it's hard to find the real thing when you're young, beautiful and the toast of two continents '' `` Remember Fanny Brice promised my mother she would look after me on the road ''??

His image of the Virgin had always been that of a young woman, even as had his memory of his mother.

He was also at the same time gaining practical experience as a safe breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene Geary, later committed to Chester Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.

One young girl told me how her mother removed a wart from her finger by soaking a copper penny in vinegar for three days and then painting the finger with the liquid several times.

In the afternoon Miss Hosaka and her mother invited me to go with them and young Mrs. Kodama to see the famous Spring dances of the Geisha dancers.

The mother of young queen, Mrs. G. Henry Pierson Jr. chose a white brocade gown made on slim lines with panels of tomato-red and bright green satin extending down the back.

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

And tomorrow she would take time to shop for the kimono her mother wanted to present to the young wife of a faculty member as a hostess gown.

`` When your mother was here he must have been a young boy.

At age six, young Bronson began his formal education in a one-room schoolhouse in the center of town but learned how to read at home with the help of his mother.

Alcott himself worried about his own prospects as a young man, once writing to his mother that he was " still at my old trade — hoping.

When Alexander became emperor, he was young, amiable, well-meaning, and entirely under the dominion of his mother.

As a measure intended to keep the support of the Doukai, Alexios restored Constantine Doukas, the young son of Michael VII and Maria, as co-emperor and a little later betrothed him to his own first-born daughter Anna, who moved into the Mangana Palace with her fiancé and his mother.

Friends of the young Alexios II now tried to form a party against the empress mother and the prōtosebastos ; Alexios II's half-sister Maria, wife of Caesar John ( Renier of Montferrat ), stirred up riots in the streets of the capital.

He allowed Alexios II to be crowned, but was responsible for the death of most of the young emperor's actual or potential defenders, including his mother, his half-sister and the Caesar, and refused to allow him the smallest voice in public affairs.

The young Alexei was brought up by his mother, who fostered an atmosphere of disdain towards Peter the Great, Alexei's father.

Litters tend to average 5 – 8 kits but may be as many as 25 ( the largest in the order Carnivora ) Both the mother and the father help to raise their young.

Christine tells Krogstad that she only married her husband because she had no other means to support her sick mother and young siblings, and that she has returned to offer him her love again.

The Hebrew of the original calls the child's mother a " young woman ", but the Greek-speaking 1st century CE author of Matthew 1: 23, using the Hellenistic Greek translation of the Hebrew sacred texts, interpreted it as a prophecy that the Messiah would be born of a virgin.

Spielsdorf and his niece had met a young woman named Millarca and her enigmatic mother at a costume ball.

Egypt is identified in the Bible as the place of refuge that the Holy Family sought in its flight from Judea: " When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod the Great, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt I called My Son " ( Matthew 2: 12 – 23 ).

His mother Mary ( née Bennett ) suffered from a benign brain tumour when Donald was very young.

He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts ; he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family.

Later, when he ascended to the throne in 781, Kammu appointed his young brother, Prince Sawara, whose mother was Takano no Niigasa, as crown prince.

This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.

Abba Mari moved to Montpellier, where, to his chagrin, he found the study of rabbinical lore greatly neglected by the young, who devoted all of their time and zeal to science and philosophy.

A year later, at fourteen years old, he moved on to Fatima College where he started his development as a promising young player under cricket coach Mr. Harry Ramdass.

One source for this was when, as a very young boy, he would hear his father, grandfather, and cowboys give out loud cries when the music moved them.

With the Official IRA and Official Sinn Féin having moved away from mainstream Irish republicanism towards Marxism, the Provisional IRA began to win the support of newly radicalised, disaffected young people.

In 1934, the McDaniel family moved to the largely black South Side area of Chicago, where the young man dropped the name Otha and became known as Ellas McDaniel, until his musical ambitions demanded that he take on a more catchy identity.

After World War II, the family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where the young Hopper attended Saturday art classes at the Kansas City Art Institute.

In this era, the Britannica moved from being a three-volume set ( 1st edition ) compiled by one young editor — William Smellie — to a 20-volume set written by numerous authorities.

Pope Innocent III initially had supported the Welfs, but when Otto, now sole elected monarch, moved to appropriate Sicily, Innocent changed sides and accepted young Frederick II and his ally, King Philip II of France, who defeated Otto at the 1214 Battle of Bouvines.

While Bosman was still young, his family moved to Johannesburg where he went to school at Jeppe High School for Boys in Kensington.

The following summer, he moved upriver to the Oakley Plantation in the Felicianas, where he taught drawing to Eliza Pirrie, the young daughter of the owners.

The young Abel later moved to Leipzig to attend boarding school.

As the 19th century progressed and public taste moved away from the aged taste, unblended young beer, mostly in the form of Mild Ale or Light Bitter Beer, began to dominate the market.

The effects moved with the young woman when she changed jobs until they finally faded out, disappeared, and never recurred.

Hasselberg grew up in Blekinge, but moved to Paris as a young man, where he studied under François Jouffroy.

Richard was named Lord Protector of the young king and quickly moved to keep the family of the Queen mother from exercising power.

In New York he met fellow young poet, David Giannini, and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico for several months, where Giannini and Meyers co-founded " Genesis: Grasp ".

Jefferson and the young American navy forced Tunis and Algiers into breaking their alliance with Tripoli which ultimately moved it out of the war.

When Theseus grew up and became a brave young man, he moved the rock and recovered his father's tokens.

While Marshall was still a young boy, his family moved several times in search of a good climate for Daniel to attempt different " outdoor cures " on Martha.

He was a native of Soli, Cilicia, but moved to Athens as a young man, where he became a pupil of Cleanthes in the Stoic school.

Among those deeply moved by the fairy-tale opera was the young King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

Bill Drummond designed sets for the show, and it was eventually seen ( when it moved to London, with Bill Nighy then joining the cast ) by the young Jimmy Cauty.