Rahim Al-Hussaini was named Wednesday as the new Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims, following the death of his father.

The Aga Khan IV passed away in Lisbon on Tuesday. He will be remembered by many as the ‘Imam of the Atomic Age’. Indians are most familiar with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, which has restored Delhi’s Humayun’s Tomb and the surrounding area.

Hussaini, the new spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, was named as the successor to his father, who died at 88.

Paris The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims at age 20 as a Harvard undergraduate and poured a material empire built on billions of dollars in tithes into building homes,

Ismaili Muslims community world-wide welcomed their new spiritual leader following the death of imam, Prince Karim Aga Khan.Rahim Al-Hussaini was named as the new Aga Khan, as per the will of his late father who passed away on Tuesday,

At the age of 20, Prince Karim Al-Hussaini inherited the reins of a Shia Muslim lineage and used his entrepreneurship to become one of the world’s richest hereditary rulers.

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Rahim Al-Hussaini was named Wednesday as the new Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims, following the death of his father. The Aga Khan is considered by his followers to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad and is treated as a head of state.

Aga Khan IV, the 49th hereditary imam of the Nizari Isma’ilism sect of Shia Islam, has died in Lisbon, Portugal. The billionaire religious leader, whose birth name was Mawlana Shah Karim al Hussaini,