The Aga Khan agreed to lease the building to the club for a nominal “peppercorn rent” in 1961. That year, Jomo Kenyatta was freed from restriction in Maralal and was quickly welcomed into the ...

Through his building programmes and the Aga Khan Award, the spiritual leader of the Shia Ismaili Muslims was an important ...

His Aga Khan Development Network and the Ismaili religious ... and he represented Iran in the 1964 Winter Olympics as a skier. His eye for building and design led him to establish an architecture ...

The Aga Khan, right in top hat ... the first purpose-built building of its kind in the West. Other projects included the restoration of the 14th-century Djingareyber mosque in Timbuktu (one ...

The Aga Khan, who has died at 88, became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims at the age of 20. He was also one of a golden age of owner-breeders for European horse racing.

It was in the 1970s that the Aga Khan really reignited the equine connection, building a new stud in Normandy, the Haras de Bonneval, in 1973 before opening the Aiglemont complex in Chantilly five ...

In the Nizamuddin Basti, women are experiencing a shift in societal norms, gaining independence through work and education.

The Aga Khan University (AKU) recently held its first student-led Model-World Health Organization (M-WHO) assembly. The ...

PARIS (AP) — The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader ... a material empire built on billions of dollars in tithes into building homes, hospitals and schools in developing countries ...