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Shah Rahim al-Hussaini (Persian: رحیم الحسینی; born 12 October 1971), known as the Aga Khan V (Persian: آقاخان پنجم, romanized: Āqā Khān Panjum), is a religious leader, businessman, and socialite. He is the 50th hereditary Imam of the Shia Nizari Isma'ili Muslims, a branch of Islam whose followers claim descent from Muhammad through his daughter, Fatima, and his cousin and son-in-law, Ali. The Qasimi Nizari Ismailis maintain that they are the only Shi‘i group today led by a living, present, hereditary Imam.
He is the second of four children of Shah Karim al-Husseini, who went by the title Aga Khan IV, and became the Nizari Imam following his father's death on 4 February 2025. He is the fifth person in the family to hold the title Aga Khan. Upon assuming the Imamate, he inherited his father's estate, which had been valued at over US$13.3 billion by Vanity Fair in 2013.
Rahim Aga Khan was born on 12 October 1971, in Geneva, Switzerland. He is the eldest son and second oldest of three children born to Shah Karim al-Husseini (Aga Khan IV) and his first wife Salimah Aga Khan (née Sarah Croker-Poole), a British national.
Rahim was educated in the United States, receiving his secondary education at Phillips Academy Andover, Massachusetts (1990), before graduating from Brown University with a bachelor's degree in comparative literature in 1995. In 2006 he completed graduate studies in management and administration in Barcelona, Spain, at the IESE Business School University of Navarra.
Based in Geneva, Switzerland, Rahim has been involved for many years in the governance of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), where, as of 2020, he chaired the AKDN Environment and Climate Committee.
As of 2019, Rahim sat on either the Board or Executive Committee for several of the AKDN's agencies and affiliated structures, including the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, and the Aga Khan University Foundation.
In 2010, he established the Aga Khan Brown Workshop series at the Watson Institute.
Shah Rahim al-Hussaini, who had been designated as successor by his father, was publicly announced as the new Imam following his father's death on 4 February 2025. The announcement took place after the reading of Shah Karim al-Husseini’s will at the Ismaili Centre in Lisbon. According to Nizari Ismaili tradition, leadership passes through designation by the previous Imam.
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Aga Khan V
Shah Rahim al-Hussaini (Persian: رحیم الحسینی; born 12 October 1971), known as the Aga Khan V (Persian: آقاخان پنجم, romanized: Āqā Khān Panjum), is a religious leader, businessman, and socialite. He is the 50th hereditary Imam of the Shia Nizari Isma'ili Muslims, a branch of Islam whose followers claim descent from Muhammad through his daughter, Fatima, and his cousin and son-in-law, Ali. The Qasimi Nizari Ismailis maintain that they are the only Shi‘i group today led by a living, present, hereditary Imam.
He is the second of four children of Shah Karim al-Husseini, who went by the title Aga Khan IV, and became the Nizari Imam following his father's death on 4 February 2025. He is the fifth person in the family to hold the title Aga Khan. Upon assuming the Imamate, he inherited his father's estate, which had been valued at over US$13.3 billion by Vanity Fair in 2013.
Rahim Aga Khan was born on 12 October 1971, in Geneva, Switzerland. He is the eldest son and second oldest of three children born to Shah Karim al-Husseini (Aga Khan IV) and his first wife Salimah Aga Khan (née Sarah Croker-Poole), a British national.
Rahim was educated in the United States, receiving his secondary education at Phillips Academy Andover, Massachusetts (1990), before graduating from Brown University with a bachelor's degree in comparative literature in 1995. In 2006 he completed graduate studies in management and administration in Barcelona, Spain, at the IESE Business School University of Navarra.
Based in Geneva, Switzerland, Rahim has been involved for many years in the governance of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), where, as of 2020, he chaired the AKDN Environment and Climate Committee.
As of 2019, Rahim sat on either the Board or Executive Committee for several of the AKDN's agencies and affiliated structures, including the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, and the Aga Khan University Foundation.
In 2010, he established the Aga Khan Brown Workshop series at the Watson Institute.
Shah Rahim al-Hussaini, who had been designated as successor by his father, was publicly announced as the new Imam following his father's death on 4 February 2025. The announcement took place after the reading of Shah Karim al-Husseini’s will at the Ismaili Centre in Lisbon. According to Nizari Ismaili tradition, leadership passes through designation by the previous Imam.
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