{"id":232528,"date":"2025-02-05T17:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T17:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/prince-rahim-is-named-the-next-aga-khan-succeeding-his-father\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T17:26:08","slug":"prince-rahim-is-named-the-next-aga-khan-succeeding-his-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/prince-rahim-is-named-the-next-aga-khan-succeeding-his-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Rahim Is Named the Next Aga Khan, Succeeding His Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/05\/world\/05aga-khan\/05aga-khan-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Prince Rahim Is Named the Next Aga Khan, Succeeding His Father\" title=\"Prince Rahim Is Named the Next Aga Khan, Succeeding His Father\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prince Rahim, a son of the Aga Khan IV, was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheIsmaili\/status\/1887178536034967872\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">named<\/a> as his successor on Wednesday, inheriting the role of the spiritual leader of millions of Ismaili Muslims around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The late <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/04\/world\/the-aga-khan-iv-dead.html\" title=\"\">Aga Khan<\/a>, 88 \u2014 a billionaire who was known for both his entrepreneurship and his philanthropy \u2014 died on Tuesday. Prince Rahim was named as his successor after the unsealing of his will, according to the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/the.akdn\/en\/home\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Aga Khan Development Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prince Rahim, who is the Aga Khan V, will take the reins of a Shiite Muslim lineage that claims descent from the Prophet Muhammad. Ismaili Muslims, numbering 12 million to 15 million, live in more than 35 countries including Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His family and the Ismaili institutions are stunningly wealthy: Estimates of the fortune have ranged from $1 billion to $13 billion, with diverse holdings ranging from airlines to racehorses to newspapers. The Aga Khan IV was one of the world\u2019s wealthiest hereditary rulers, with some of the money coming from a kind of tithe levied on his followers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He was known as a jet-setter who bred horses and was friends with royalty. But the family and the Ismaili community are also well known for operating humanitarian institutions across the world, including hospitals and universities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In naming his son as his successor, the late Aga Khan has realigned the family with tradition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His grandfather, the Aga Khan III, skipped over other descendants in 1957 to name him as a successor, pointing to the need for a young man\u2019s mind-set to meet a rapidly changing world. At the time, his grandson was a 20-year-old student of Islamic history at Harvard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/05\/world\/europe\/prince-rahim-aga-khan-ismaili-muslims.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Rahim, a son of the Aga Khan IV, was named as his successor on Wednesday, inheriting the role of the spiritual leader of millions of Ismaili Muslims around the world. The late Aga Khan, 88 \u2014 a billionaire who was known for both his entrepreneurship and his philanthropy \u2014 died on Tuesday. Prince Rahim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/05\/world\/05aga-khan\/05aga-khan-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[181287,181337,164765,7177,54520,870,163679,10764,6885,6249,83570],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232530,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232528\/revisions\/232530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}