The Tuesday death of the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims, and the Wednesday announcement of his successor struck a deep chord with Houston’s sizable Ismaili ...
In 1957 at the age of 20, Prince Karim Al-Hussaini inherited the reins of a lineage that claimed descent from the Prophet Muhammad and became the spiritual leader of some 15 million Shia Ismaili ...