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FAITHFUL TO THE MAN AND THE PLACE-2000-07-01

Posted November 17th, 2009 by librarian-ap
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Mata Salamat Umme Habibeh Aga Khan
Source: 
Al-Ahram Weekly

Shortly before his death in 1957, Sultan Mohamed Shah Agha Khan, spiritual leader of the Ismaili sect of Islam, chose as his resting place a solitary sand dune on the West Bank of the Nile at Aswan. Princess Yvonne Agha Khan, known as the Begum, a French national and the Sultan`s third wife, has cared for this tomb ever since, staying at their house nearby for six months of the year and spending the summer at their villa in Cannes.


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