"III to see the British monarchy award the non-hereditary title to his successor. The style of ""His Royal Highness"" was granted in 1959 to the Aga Khan IV by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, later overthrown in the Iranian Revolution of 1979, but he uses instead ""His Highness"". Over the years, the Aga Khan has received numerous honours, honorary degrees, and awards. Aga Khan IV Prince Shah Karim Al Hussaini, Aga Khan IV, (; ; ; ""Aga Khan"" is also transliterated as ""Aqa Khan"" and ""Agha Khan""; born 13 December 1936) is the 49th and current Imam and"
"surviving male heir of the last king of Afghanistan. Unlike his father, he does not possess the official title ""Baba-i-Millet-i-Afghanistan"" (Father of the Nation of Afghanistan). He was married at Kabul in 1961 to Princess Khatul Begum the daughter of Sardar Muhammad Umar Khan Zikeria, by his wife, Princess Sultana Begum. He has two sons and one daughter: Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan Ahmad Shah, Crown Prince of Afghanistan (Pashto: أحمد شاه خان , born 23 September 1934 in Arg-i-Shahi, Kabul) is the second son of Mohammed Zahir Shah, the former King of Afghanistan. At the time of"
"Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan Ahmad Shah, Crown Prince of Afghanistan (Pashto: أحمد شاه خان , born 23 September 1934 in Arg-i-Shahi, Kabul) is the second son of Mohammed Zahir Shah, the former King of Afghanistan. At the time of his birth he was second in the line of succession to the throne after his older brother Muhammed Akbar Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan. However following the death of his brother on 26 November 1942, he became first in the line of succession and the heir apparent and Crown Prince. He attended Oxford University, the Institut d'études politiques"
"in exile near Rome until 2002, returning to Afghanistan after the end of the Taliban regime. He was given the title Father of the Nation, which he held until his death in 2007. Zahir Shah was born on 15 October 1914, in Kabul, Afghanistan. He was the son of Mohammed Nadir Shah, a senior member of the Muhamadzai Royal family and commander in chief of the Afghan army for former king Amanullah Khan. Nadir Shah assumed the throne after the execution of Habibullah Kalakani on 10 October 1929. Mohammed Zahir's father, son of Sardar Mohammad Yusuf Khan, was born in"
"up since 1999, chair of the supreme council for the environment and natural resources since 2000. He is also patron of Aspire Academy since 2003. Sheikh Jassim married Sheikha Buthaina bint Hamad Al Thani, the daughter of Shaikh Hamad bin Ali Al Thani, at Al Wajbah Palace, Doha, on 30 March 2006. They have seven children, three sons and four daughters: Jassim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Jassim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (born 25 August 1978) is the former heir apparent of Qatar. He is the third son of the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin"
"24 September 1975. Upon his death on 5 May 1988 in London, his son Mohammad Hassan Mirza II became the Heir Presumptive of the Qajar Dynasty while his uncle, Mahmoud Mirza became the new head of the dynasty. He was married twice. In 1946, he married Mahin Dokht Malek-Mansur (born in 1924), in Paris. They had two children: They were divorced in 1957. On 25 August 1960, he married Soudabeh Afshar (born in 1924) in Tehran. This marriage was childless. Hamid Mirza Prince Sultan Hamid Mirza Qajar (23 April 1918 – 5 May 1988) was the head and heir presumptive"
"Hossein Vahid Khorasani Grand Ayatollah Hussain Vahid Khorasani ( , born January 1, 1921) is one of the most senior Twelver Shia Marja' living in Iran after Ali Khamenei.He is the head of Qom Seminary in Qom. Hussain Vahid Khorasani was born in Nishapur, Iran on 1 January 1921. He moved to Najaf, Iraq in 1940 and studied in Ayatollah Khoei Seminary (Hawza) and moved back to Iran in 1972. Currently, Khorasani residing in Qom and is considered as source of emulation. He is also the father-in-law of Sadeq Larijani. He started his eralier studies in Mashhad by learning Arabic"
"Aga Khan IV Prince Shah Karim Al Hussaini, Aga Khan IV, (; ; ; ""Aga Khan"" is also transliterated as ""Aqa Khan"" and ""Agha Khan""; born 13 December 1936) is the 49th and current Imam and Aga Khan of Nizari Ismailism, a denomination of Isma'ilism within Shia Islam with an estimated 10-15 million adherents (10—12% of the world's Shia Muslim population). The Aga Khan is a business magnate with British citizenship, as well as a racehorse owner and breeder. He has held this position of Imam, under the title of Aga Khan IV, since 11 July 1957, when, at the"
"including ""The Holy Cities, the Pilgrimage and the World of Islam"" (2008). Ghalib II al-Qu'aiti HRH Sultan Ghalib II bin Awadh al-Qu'aiti (born 7 January 1948) was sultan of the Qu'aiti State or Qu'aiti Sultanate, in modern Yemen, and the current head of the Al-Qu'aiti household. He reigned from 11 October 1966 until the monarchy was ousted by communists on 17 September 1967. Sultan Ghalib was born in London, United Kingdom, and is the eldest son of his predecessor, Sultan Awadh bin Saleh. His coronation took place 10 June 1967. After his forced abdication, Ghalib married Sultana Rashid Ahmed on"
"Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa (Arabic: الامير ناصر بن حمد آل خليفة) (born: 8 May 1987) is a member of the Bahraini royal family and the commander of Bahrain's Royal Guard and president of the Bahrain Olympic Committee. He denies allegations that he has ever personally tortured anyone . Sheikh Nasser is a son of the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. He is the elder of the two children born to the king by his second wife, Sheia bint Hassan Al Khrayyesh Al Ajmi; he has one full brother, Sheikh Khalid"
"continuous turmoil in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Aga Khan IV became the first faith leader to address the Joint Session of the Canadian Parliament on 27 February 2014. Born Prince Karim Aga Khan, the Aga Khan IV is the eldest son of Prince Aly Khan (1911–1960), and his first wife, the Hon. Princess Tajuddawlah Aly Khan, formerly the Hon. Joan Barbara Yarde-Buller (1908–1997), the eldest daughter of British peer 3rd Baron Churston. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, on 13 December 1936, Prince Karim was declared healthy despite being born prematurely. The Aga Khan's brother, Prince Amyn, was born less than a year"
"successors. He married Noraini Jane binti Kamarul Ariffin (born 1960) on 26 September 1991 in Kuala Kangsar. She is the daughter of Kamarul Ariffin bin Muhammad Yassin, former Senator and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery. They had one son and two daughters: Raja Ashman died on 30 March 2012, due to an asthma attack. He was survived by his wife, parents, siblings, and children. He was buried at the Al-Ghufran Royal Mausoleum near Ubudiah Mosque, Kuala Kangsar. He was awarded: Raja Ashman Shah Raja Ashman Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah Al-Maghfur-lah (28"
"Humaira Begum Humaira Begum (; 24 July 1918 – 26 June 2002) was the wife and first cousin of King Mohammed Zahir Shah and the last Queen consort of Afghanistan. Humaira Begum was the daughter of ""Sardar"" Ahmad Shah Khan and his first wife Zarin Begum. She married her first cousin, the Crown Prince of Afghanistan Mohammed Zahir on 7 November 1931 in Kabul. Together they had six sons and two daughters: On 8 November 1933 after the assassination of her father in law Mohammed Nadir Shah her husband was proclaimed King and Humaira became Queen of Afghanistan. In 1946"
"Ageel bin Muhammad al-Badr Prince Ageel bin Muhammad al-Badr Hamidaddin (Arabic: عقيل بن محمد البدر حميد الدين) is also known as Ageel Al Shami or Yusuf Shami (born London in 1974) is the eldest son of Muhammad al-Badr, the last ruling king of the Yemen and Muhammad al-Shami, by his fourth wife. Yemen became a republic following the overthrow of the monarchy in 1962. Since the death of his father in 1996, Ageel bin Muhammad has been the head of the royal Hamid ad-Din lineage. He uses the title ""Saif al-Islam"" (""Sword of Islam""), which was formerly carried by the"
"International College, Sherborne School in Dorset. After graduation Sheikh Jassim was commissioned as 2nd-lieutenant in the Qatari armed forces on 9 August 1996. He was appointed heir apparent of Qatar on 23 October 1996. He replaced Mishaal bin Hamad Al Thani, his older half-brother, in the post. Jassim renounced his rights in favour of his younger brother Sheikh Tamim on 5 August 2003. Jassim was the personal representative of the former emir. Sheikh Jassim is also honorary president of the Qatar National Cancer Society (QNCS) since 1997. Furthermore, he has been chair of the high committee for coordination and follow"
"entered life of semi-retirement in France where he lived until his death in January 2005. He is buried at Passy Cemetery in Paris. Gholam Hossein Jahanshahi Gholam Hossein Jahanshahi (Persian: غلامحسين جهانشاهی) was the second son of Mohammad Shafi Jahanshahi, the former head of the supreme court of Iran. He was born in 1920 in Tehran where he attended his primary and secondary education prior to attending a degree course in law at the University of Tehran. Subsequent to completing his undergraduate studies at Tehran University he traveled to France to pursue his academic studies at the University of Paris"
"torture. Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa (Arabic: الامير ناصر بن حمد آل خليفة) (born: 8 May 1987) is a member of the Bahraini royal family and the commander of Bahrain's Royal Guard and president of the Bahrain Olympic Committee. He denies allegations that he has ever personally tortured anyone . Sheikh Nasser is a son of the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. He is the elder of the two children born to the king by his second wife, Sheia bint Hassan Al Khrayyesh Al Ajmi; he has one full brother, Sheikh"
"of India in 2009. He was the chief guest at Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas 2010 held in New Delhi. He is married to Dr Ghazala Afzal, who was appointed High Sheriff of Greater London for 2015-16. Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed, (born 1 July 1941) is the Chairman of Alpha Hospital Group, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the London International Hospital. Prior to this, he was the Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer of the Cromwell Hospital in London. He hails from Lucknow, India. He chairs the Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council. He is a Board member"
"first chairperson of the French owned Indosuez Bank in Nepal. He had represented various government delegations to different countries including China, India, Cambodia, France and USA under different capacities. Shah paid visits to different countries including United States, Italy, France, Finland, the Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom, Philippines, Cambodia, China, India, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Spain, Thailand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Egypt and Bangladesh under different occasions. Besides being honoured as the Chairman of Association of Asian Election Authorities (AAEA), he was also decorated with Trishakti Patta (Second) and Gorkha Dakshina Bahu (Second) at home and Legion of Honour (highest civilian honour of"
"other Arab people to win Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 2011. On 6 March 2012, Ahmed al-Senussi was announced as the leader of the self-declared Cyrenaica Transitional Council. Ahmed al-Senussi Prince Ahmed Al-Zubair al-Senussi, also known as Zubeir Ahmed El-Sharif, () (born 1934) is a Libyan member of the Senussi house and a member of the National Transitional Council representing political prisoners. He is a great-nephew of Idris of Libya, the only king of Libya, and was named after his grandfather Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi. Ahmed al-Senussi graduated from the Military Academy of Iraq in 1958. In 1961 he"
"the current Imam to a direct descendant in a father-to-son (or grandson) ""hereditary lineage"" starting with Imam Ali and then to Imam Hussain and so on until their present and living 49th Imam, Prince Karim al-Husayni Aga Khan IV. The Nizaris regard Hassan bin (son of) Ali as a Trustee Imam (imam al-mustawda) as opposed to a Hereditary Imam (imam al-mustaqarr). This fact is clearly demonstrated in the recitation of the Nizari Ismailis’ daily prayers three times a day in which although Hassan bin Ali is revered as part of the Prophet's personal family (Ahl al-Bayt), his name is not"
"25% of these: Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, Qatar's former prime minister and foreign minister. Sheikh Hamad has three wives and twenty-five children, twelve sons and thirteen daughters: Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Hamad bin Abdullah bin Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani (; born 1 January 1952) is a member of the ruling Al Thani Qatari royal family. He was the ruling Emir of Qatar from 1995 to 2013. The Qatari government now refers to him as His Highness the Father Emir. Hamad seized power in a bloodless palace ""coup d'état"" in 1995. During"
"in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France, is on official record there). His father chose for him an Irish name popular in France, 'Patrick', and his mother chose for him a Muslim name, 'Ali', which made 'Patrick Ali' his full given name. On his birth he was baptized. An older brother was born to his parents on 15 September 1941, prior to their marriage, and named ""Joachim Christian Philippe Pahlavi"". While his father was the second son of Reza Shah, founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and ""Shah"" of Iran, making Patrick Ali a nephew of Mohammad Reza Shah, the last"
"Jassim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Jassim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (born 25 August 1978) is the former heir apparent of Qatar. He is the third son of the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, and the first child of the Emir with his second wife, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser Al Missned. Sheikh Jassim is the third son of the former emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. His mother is Moza bint Nasser Al Missned, second wife of his father. He was educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He attended"
"1986. Yasmine, a graduate of the George Washington University School of Law, worked for ten years as a lawyer for the Children's Law Center as a legal advocate for at-risk youth. Yasmine also founded the Foundation for the Children of Iran in 1991, a non-profit foundation that provides health care services to Iranian children or children of Iranian origin. The couple have four daughters: Noor (born April 3, 1992), Iman (born September 12, 1993), Farah (born January 17, 2004) and Aylar (born February 17, 2005). In 2004, Pahlavi was named as the ""unofficial godfather"" of Princess Louise of Belgium, the"
"itself; and in all the Shia traditions except the Shia Nizari tradition it is interpreted as the last Imam of a dynasty who went into occultation. However, in Nizari Ismailism, it is interpreted as a living human Imam who is never in occultation and who will never ever be absent from this world but will always be perpetually present and physically alive, and who is designated as the inheritor of the Imamat from father to son. This tradition has continued for almost 1400 years from Ali to the present Imam-of-the-Time, Prince Karim al-Hussaini Aga Khan, the 49th hereditary Nizari Imam"
"Amir Hossein Jahanshahi Amir Hossein Jahanshahi(Persian: امیرحسین جهانشاهی born 25 September 1960) is an Iranian political activities and businessman. He is the Founder of ‘Raha TV” (2012). The elders of Amir Hossein Jahanshahi’s family belong to the Kara Koyunlu clan which has a 500 year history of governing a number of key provinces in Iran. Based in Tabriz, the ‘Gharghoyonlou’ ruled over significant sectors of contemporary Iran, including Azerbaijan, Khuzestan, Kerman, Fars and Heart as well as parts of present day Iraq. The last ‘Gharghoyonlou’ ruler was Jahan Shah. A number of personalities from this clan were religious figures [‘Mojtahid’],"
"Khalifa bin Jassim Al Thani Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim bin Muhammed bin Jassim bin Muhammed Al Thani (born 1959) is the chairman since 2014 of the Federation of the GCC Chambers of Commerce and Industry. He is a member of the Qatari royal family and businessman. He is the ninth son of Sheikh Jassim bin Muhammed bin Jassim Al Thani, the Minister of Electricity and Water from 1970 to 1989. He got a bachelor degree in political and economic sciences from University of Portland in the United States. After graduation he worked in the Amiri Diwan as Head of Political"
"Ghalib II al-Qu'aiti HRH Sultan Ghalib II bin Awadh al-Qu'aiti (born 7 January 1948) was sultan of the Qu'aiti State or Qu'aiti Sultanate, in modern Yemen, and the current head of the Al-Qu'aiti household. He reigned from 11 October 1966 until the monarchy was ousted by communists on 17 September 1967. Sultan Ghalib was born in London, United Kingdom, and is the eldest son of his predecessor, Sultan Awadh bin Saleh. His coronation took place 10 June 1967. After his forced abdication, Ghalib married Sultana Rashid Ahmed on 7 June 1975, with whom he has fathered one son, Prince Saleh"
"referred to Religiously as Khudawand (Lord of the Time), in Arabic as Mawlana (Master), or Hādhir Imām (Present Imam). Karim acceded his grandfather Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III to the Imamate in 1957, aged just 20, and still an undergraduate at Harvard University. He was referred to as ""the Imam of the Atomic age"". The period following his accession can be characterized as one of rapid political and economic change. Planning of programs and institutions became increasingly difficult due to the rapid changes in newly emerging post colonial nations where many of his followers resided. Upon becoming Imam,"
"the House of Commons. In 2017, he was included on the front cover of the annual ""Time"" 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Ahmed was born in Wembley, London, in 1982, to a British Pakistani family. His parents are of Muhajir background; his grandparents migrated from India to Pakistan during the 1947 partition of India. His father is a shipping broker. His parents moved to England from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, during the 1970s. He is a descendant of Sir Shah Muhammad Sulaiman, the first Indian to become the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court in"
"Gholam Hossein Jahanshahi Gholam Hossein Jahanshahi (Persian: غلامحسين جهانشاهی) was the second son of Mohammad Shafi Jahanshahi, the former head of the supreme court of Iran. He was born in 1920 in Tehran where he attended his primary and secondary education prior to attending a degree course in law at the University of Tehran. Subsequent to completing his undergraduate studies at Tehran University he traveled to France to pursue his academic studies at the University of Paris where he completed a PhD course in economics and law at Sorbonne in 1953. After completion of his studies he returned to Tehran"
"Hussain Aga Khan Prince Hussain Aga Khan (born April 10, 1974, in Geneva, Switzerland) is the third child and second son of Aga Khan IV and his first wife, Princess Salimah Aga Khan. He attended Deerfield Academy and subsequently Williams College, from which he graduated in 1997 with a dual degree in theatre and French literature. Since then, Prince Hussain has been based in France and working with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. Following completion of a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University in 2004, Prince Hussain assumed additional responsibility at the Aga Khan Foundation for the"