Aga Khan IV: The Exemplary Prince

The Exemplary Prince

Aga Khan IV: The Exemplary Prince

Jason Keith Fernandes

What is astounding is the absolute gamut of concerns the Aga Khan’s network of institutions took up, ranging from developmental concerns, education, microfinance, to architecture – establishing the now prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture. In India, the Aga Khan Foundation has intervened in restoring the monuments in the Deccan, as well as more famously the gardens around Humayun’s tomb.

In so doing, Mawlana Hazar Imam Aga Khan IV, demonstrated for us, the unfortunate souls that live in an age of venal mediocrity, the standards for what it is to be an exemplary prince.

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