Urbane, cosmopolitan and often media-averse, the Aga Khan — born Prince Karim Al-Hussaini — rejected the notion that expanding his personal fortune would conflict with his charitable ventures.
[…] An imam, or leader of his faith, was “not expected to withdraw from everyday life,” he once said after becoming the Aga Khan. “On the contrary, he’s expected to protect his community and contribute to their quality of life. Therefore, the notion of the divide between faith and world is foreign to Islam.”
New York Times, Alan Cowell, 4 February 2025
Tatler, Natasha Leake, 5 February 2025
Telegraph Obituaries, 5 February 2025
The Guardian, Stephen Bates, 9 February 2025
He was perhaps the most admired Muslim in the world. That was a miracle twice over: being respected by both the non-Muslim and Muslim worlds.
That he was a European Muslim was of immeasurable symbolic significance. This man of faith was a gift of the gods to the secular world: he embodied secularism’s greatest virtue, peaceful pluralism.
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