Aga Khan

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Aga Khan (Pers., Āghā Khān). Title conferred on the Ismāʿīlī imām (spiritual leader), Ḥasan ʿAlī Shāh (d. 1881) and to his successors as leaders of the Nizārī Ismāʿīlīs. They claim descent from ʿAlī and Fāṭima (the daughter of Muḥammad).

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