Lisbon:
According to Aga Khan Development Network on X, Aga Khan, known for his victory in horse racing, dazzling wealth and development, has died.
The network said the announcement of their nominated successor would be followed.
The 49th hereditary Imam or the spiritual leader of the world’s 15 million Ismaili Muslims, his name also became synonymous with success as the owner of a racechers, with Thorbred Shergar among his most famous.
The multi-millionaire, perhaps billionaire, also enjoyed a grand lifestyle, with private jets, a $ 200 million super-yacht and a private island in Bahamas.
Their money estimates from $ 800 million to $ 13 billion, with his family’s legacy, his horse breeding business and his personal investment in tourism and real estate.
International Jet Setter – British, French, Swiss and Portuguese citizenship – also put millions of people in helping people in the world’s poorest parts.
“If you travel to the developing world, you see that poverty is the driver of tragic despair, and there is a possibility that any means will be taken,” he told the New York Times in a rare interview in 2007.
Helping the poor through business, he told the newspaper, “We are developing security against extremism”.
Prince Shah Karim Al Hussaini was born on 13 December 1936 in Geneva and spent his early childhood in Nairobi, Kenya.
He later returned to Switzerland, attending the unique Le Rosie School before going to the United States to study Islamic history at Harvard.
When his grandfather Sir Sultan Mahomid Shah Aga Khan died in 1957, he became the Imam of Ismaili Muslims, a branch of Shia Islam at the age of 20.
His grandfather chose Karim as his successor on Rajkumar Elli Khan, father of his fiery son – Karim – who was once married to Hollywood actress Rita Heworth.
As Aga Khan is obtained from Khan-Turki and Persian words, which means Commanding Chief-He was believed to be a direct descendant of Prophet Mohammed by Ismailis. Wife Fatima, daughter of Prophet.
He was the fourth holder of the title, originally in the 1830s by the Emperor of Persia to the great-grandfather of Karim when he later married Emperor’s daughter.
The role involves providing divine guidance to the Ismaili community, whose members live in the Central Asia, Middle East, South Asia, Sub-Sahara Africa, Europe and North America.
After the death of her father in May 1960, Aga Khan initially considering whether her family had to continue a long tradition of racing and reproduction.
But he was bent after winning the Championship of the French owners in his first season.
“I have come to love it,” he said in an interview with Vanity Fair in 2013. “It is very exciting, a continuous challenge. Every time you sit and race you are playing chess games with nature.”
His stables and riders, wearing their amrald-green silk, enjoyed great successes with horses such as C the Stars, who won the Epsom Derby and 2,000 Guinea; And Sinander, who also won the Epsom Derby, Irish Derby and Prix Day L’Arc de Triumph in the same year, 2000.
But perhaps his most famous horse was Sharr, who won the Epsom Derby, Irish Derby and King George before kidnapping from Ireland’s Ballini Studies in February 1983.
Along with the mafia, a ransom was demanded with former Libya leaders Muammar Gaddafi and Ira. No money was paid, and no horse trail was ever found.
Aga Khan established the Aga Khan Vikas Network in 1967. A group of international development agencies employ 80,000 people that help in building schools and hospitals and provide electricity to millions of people in the poorest parts of Africa and Asia.
He mixed his development work with private business, for example a pharmaceutical company, a bank and a fishnet factory in Uganda.
The Vanity Fair wrote in its 2013 article, “Some individuals brid down so many partitions – between spiritual and material; East and West; Muslim and Christian – as he does with grace,” Vanity Fair has its own 2013 It is written in the article.
They were married twice, in 1969 before former British model Sarah Croker Polay, with whom he had a daughter and two sons. The couple divorced in 1995.
In 1998, she married German -born Gabriel Zu Leeningan, with whom she had a son. The couple divorced in 2014.
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