{"id":35841,"date":"2025-02-06T14:51:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=35841"},"modified":"2025-02-06T14:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:51:57","slug":"prince-rahim-aga-khan-v-named-50th-hereditary-imam-of-the-shia-ismaili-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/35841","title":{"rendered":"Prince Rahim Aga\u00a0Khan V named 50th hereditary Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LISBON, PORTUGAL: Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini Aga\u00a0Khan V was named the 50th hereditary Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, following the unsealing of the Will of his late father, Prince Karim Al-Hussaini Aga\u00a0Khan IV, who died in Lisbon, Portugal, aged 88.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Throughout their 1,400 year history, the Ismailis have been led by a living, hereditary Imam. The Ismailis live in over 35 countries and number approximately 12 to 15 million.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Rahim al-Hussaini Aga Khan V is the 50th hereditary Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, as designated by Mawlana Shah Karim in accordance with the historical Shia Imami Ismaili Muslim tradition and practice of\u00a0nass.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made in the presence of the Imam\u2019s family and senior Jamati leaders, in Lisbon on 5 February 2025, following the reading of Mawlana Shah Karim\u2019s Will.<\/p>\n<p>Rahim Aga Khan will take on the role from his father Prince Karim Aga Khan,\u00a0who died on February 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LISBON, PORTUGAL: Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini Aga\u00a0Khan V was named the 50th hereditary Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, following the unsealing of the Will of his late father, Prince Karim Al-Hussaini Aga\u00a0Khan IV, who died in Lisbon, Portugal, aged 88. Throughout their 1,400 year history, the Ismailis have been led by a living, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":35842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pakistan","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35843,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35841\/revisions\/35843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}