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A rare interview with the Aga Khan on poverty, climate change, and demystifying Islam 2017-07-11

Posted January 27th, 2020 by librarian-hd
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His Highness the Aga Khan IV. The media-shy spiritual leader, now in his 60th year as Aga Khan.
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QUARTZ qz.com

His Highness Prince Karim, the Aga Khan, is many things.

“Virtually a one-man state,” as Vanity Fair once put it, he’s the spiritual leader of the world’s 15 million Shia Ismaili Muslims and a unique embodiment of the potential for East blending with West. He inherited from his Indian-born grandfather a dynasty that spans the Muslim world, but he is a British citizen, born in Switzerland, raised in Kenya, educated at Harvard, and lives in a French chateau.


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