How the Fourth Aga Khan Balances Spiritual Muslim Leadership | Vanity Fair

The Aga Khan’s Earthly Kingdom: How the Fourth Aga Khan Balances Spiritual Muslim Leadership | Vanity FairBy James Reginato

His Highness Prince Karim, the fourth Aga Khan and 49th hereditary imam of the world’s 15 million Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, remains a paradox to many people. The Pope of his flock, he also possesses fabled wealth and inhabits a world of marvelous châteaux, yachts, jets, and Thoroughbred horses. To be sure, few persons bridge so many divides—between the spiritual and the material; East and West; Muslim and Christian—as gracefully as he does.

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