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Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, PC (November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims. - Aga Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aga Khan III = Prince Sultan Mohammed, (1877–1957), 48th Imam (17 August 1885–1957) Aga Khan IV = Prince Karim Al Husseini (b. 1936), 49th Imam of the Ismailis (from 11 July 1957) - Aga Khan III[1877-1957]
Sultan Muhammad Shah was born in 1877 at Karachi. At the age of eight he lost his father Aly Shah, the Aga Khan II, and assumed the title of Aga Khan III, thus becoming the ...
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Aga Khan III, (1877-1957), head of the Ismaili sect in India beginning in 1885, who persuaded his followers and other Muslims to side with the Allies during World War I (1914-1918). The son of Aga Khan II, he was born Aga Sultan Sir Mahomed Shah in Karāchi, India (now in Pakistan), and educated in Europe. In 1932 and from 1934 to 1937, he headed the Indian delegation to the Assembly of the League of Nations. He was a noted sportsman, and his extreme wealth enabled him to maintain the most valuable racing stables in the world before World War II (1939-1945). He also contributed generously to the Alīgarh Muslim University in India. He wrote India in Transition (1918) and Memoirs (1954).
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