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The whole Karachi Ismaili Jamat photographed with 48th Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah in 1902 at Aga Khan Gymkhana

November 2nd marks 145th birthday anniversary of our beloved 48th Imam Shah Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan who was born in Karachi, Pakistan at a place known as Mohammed Tekri in 1877

Geneva
6th October 1937

18th Session

THE AGA KHAN'S PRESIDENTIAL REVIEW
Ladies and Gentlemen,

Your work for the time being is at an end. But I have still a duty to perform.

Thanks.

Owning some of the most extravagant and fabulous pieces of jewellery in the world just comes with the territory when you are married to the Aga Khan. Such was the case for Princess Andrée, the Parisian shop owner turned royal, who became the third wife of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III, in 1929.

Amongst her trousseau was an Egyptian style diamond and platinum tiara from Cartier, bought by her new husband in 1934. It features stylised lotus flowers set onto a diamond band, and is intended to be worn high on the head.

Memorable photo from Nizari Ismaili magazine printed in 1939

1954, January 31: Mowlana Sultan Muhammad Shah visited Basra before the Platinum Jubilee. Wazir Ahmed Nizari and about 50 Ismailis went from Kuwait to Basra where they got an opportunity to present their individual Mehmani.

The assembly to his mind represented all that was best in the Muslims of India. It expressed that awakening sense of their
fallen position after a glorious past; it expressed dissatisfaction with their present intellectual, moral and social position; and it expressed the longing desire to regain the intellectual freedom which Muslims enjoyed during the first two centuries of their era. Pessimism was not the force, said the Aga Khan, that had drawn them there that day. Pessimism in the Muslim world was nothing new:

Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan III, born on November 2, 1877, was the 48th hereditary Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims. Through his intimate knowledge of diverse cultural traditions, he played a unique and significant role in the international affairs of his time, and his long public career had many dimensions.

A social reformer, whose concerns included the alleviation of rural poverty and the upliftment of women in society, he was an advocate of modern education and became an ardent supporter of male and female educational advancement in the subcontinent.

At first sight, the Mausoleum of the Agha Khan in Aswan may appear to you as an austere and isolated building, on the west bank of the Nile River. Inspired by the architecture of the Cairo Fatimids, the structure is recognizable by its elegance and by its special use of pink granite. It was built at the request of the begum, wife of the Aga Khan III who died in 1957.The begum Aga Khan; who died in 2000, lived in the white villa below but closed the mausoleum to the public in 1997 to allow the deceased to rest in peace away from the bustle of the living.

Adjournment of the Session Speech to the League of Nations

Ladies and gentlemen,

Your work for the time being is at an end. But I have still a duty to perform.

My Flag-Red and Green

Letter to Hoodbhoy from Sultan Mohd. Shah Aga Khan III.
To Sikander Hashim Hoodbhoy.
Subject: Valuable Information

My dear Hoodbhoy,

L'Aga Khan, son épouse la Begum ont été salué à l'aérodrome de Nice par le Préfet des Alpes-Maritimes Monsieur et Madame Moatti en présence du prince Ali Khan (à gauche), à Nice, France le 11 décembre 1955. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

The Ismaili Volunteers Corp began in 1919. It was comprised of a few khaki-clad social workers known as His Highness The Aga Khan's Bombay Volunteers Corps. In 1920, Mowlana Sultan Muhammad Shah, pleased with the work performed by the Bombay Volunteers Corp, granted them the "Coat of Arms" to be worn as part of their uniform. This officially established the Volunteer Corps as an organized body. Mowlana Sultan Muhammad Shah wore it's uniform for the first time in 1921 in His capacity as Colonel of the Corps.

L'Aga Khan III
Mohamed Aly Ibrahim, l'Aga Khan III, le prince Mohamed Aly, le roi Farouk, le prince Abdel Moheim et Mohamed Aly Raouf, après la signature du contrat de mariage de l'Aga Khan III au Khoubbeh Palace, en décembre 1929, au Caire, Egypte. (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

The 2nd of November marks the birth anniversary of Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan (1877-1957) who made significant contributions to the social, cultural, political, economic and educational growth of Muslims.

November 2nd marks the birthday of our beloved 48th Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah who was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1877

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Your work for the time being is at an end. But I have still a duty to perform.

Thanks.

August 17th was designated by Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah to Ismailis as Diamond Jubilee Day and to be celebrated as such every year.

Imposing Urdu as a national language on then-East Pakistan actually damaged ‘national unity,’ rather than bolstering it
Dr. Naazir Mahmood, in his book of collected essays Politics Pictures Personalities (2005), highlights some “mistakes” of Pakistan soon after Partition in 1947, suggesting these foreshadowed the “big” mistakes it was to make later.

The state of Pakistan and its inhabitants owe a debt of gratitude to Aga Khan III for his contributions to its development