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    • Special coverage of His Highness the Aga Khan’s visit to Canada
    • Reflections on the Code of Conduct during the Didar of the Imam-of-the-Time
    • His Highness the Aga Khan’s Eid and Nawruz message
    • Exclusive: A personal visit to the site of the Ismaili Centre in Paris
    • Latest News (2026): His Highness the Aga Khan commits $100 million to Global Nutrition effort
    • Recognition of the Imam: The Murid’s Journey to Light and Wisdom
    • Aga Khan III and Florence Nightingale: BBC airs episode of a historical meeting
    • Special coverage of the Aga Khan’s visit to the U.K.
    • Canadian and USA tributes to His Highness Prince Rahim Aga Khan on his First Imamat Day anniversary
    • His Highness the Aga Khan’s messages and speeches during his first year of Imamat
    • The Quest and Ecstasy of Didar (Vision)
    • His Highness the Aga Khan’s First Year of Imamat
    • “Call on the Names of Imams”
    • Prince Sinan Aga Khan in pictures
    • The birth anniversary of Hazrat Ali
    • Special coverage of the Aga Khan’s visit to Portugal
    • Special coverage the Aga Khan’s visit to the USA
    • Special coverage of the Aga Khan’s visit to Uganda
    • Special coverage of the Aga Khan’s visit to Kenya
    • Special coverage of the Aga Khan’s historic visit to France
    • His Late Highness Aga Khan IV on Prophet Muhammad
    • The Aga Khan approves a new motif for his inaugural visits to Ismaili Muslims
    • Ghadir Khumm: Ismaili Muslims Continue to be Guided by the Promised Rope of Imamat
    • Prince Irfan Aga Khan: Ten years in pictures
    • His Highness Prince Rahim Aga Khan: A pictorial story
    • Manuscript gifted to His Highness the Aga Khan on his enthronement
    • His Highness Prince Rahim Aga Khan accepts oath of allegiance in a magnificent enthronement ceremony
    • In Gratitude: From Shah Karim to Shah Rahim
    • Prince Rahim Aga Khan is the New Face of Imamat
    • His Highness the Aga Khan, the 49th Hereditary Imam of the Ismaili Muslims, Passes Away
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    • Talika, 85th Salgirah, December 2021
    • Talika, 64th Imamat Day, July 2021
    • Talika, Navroz, March 2021
    • Talika, 84th Salgirah, December 2020
    • Talika, November 2020
    • Talika, 63rd Imamat Day, July 2020
    • Talika, Eid ul-Fitr, May 2020
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Category: 1936-1957

This segment 1936-1957 will briefly cover (1) his childhood in Kenya, (2) schooling in Europe; and (3) and his under-graduate studies at USA’s Harvard University until he was called by the will of his grandfather to become the 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims.

January 5, 2025January 19, 2025 Malik Merchant, Editor

Rare Platinum Jubilee Souvenir from 1954 Contains Prince Karim Aga Khan’s Advice to the Ismaili Community on Excelling in Education, Hard Work, Obedience to Imam’s Farmans, and Devotion to Community

June 4, 2020 Malik Merchant, Editor

A memorable 1951 photo of Prince Aly Khan taken in Mombasa, Kenya

Aga Khan Leading Eid ul Fir prayers at age 7 in Nairobi Simerg and Barakah
May 23, 2020May 31, 2021 Malik Merchant, Editor

The unforgettable Eid ul-Fitr of September 1944: A heart warming story as told by Mawlana Hazar Imam and Prince Amyn Muhammad

Long Live Aga Khan Banner at his Platinum Jubilee Celebrations in Karachi, Barakah
May 18, 2020May 20, 2020 Malik Merchant, Editor

Nine devotional Swahili songs from 1952 honouring Imam e Zaman Mawlana Sultan Mahomed Shah, His Highness the Aga Khan

November 28, 2019December 1, 2019 Malik Merchant, Editor

Very rare photos of Prince Aly Khan’s 1951 visit to Arusha, Tanganyika

November 1, 2018February 18, 2019 Malik Merchant, Editor

“Mawla fulfilled my wish” – a six year old girl’s loving story from the Diamond Jubilee of His Highness the Aga Khan III

October 26, 2017 Malik Merchant, Editor

Reminiscences of the 1946 Diamond Jubilee of the 48th Ismaili Imam His Highness the Aga Khan III by Ismaili women of the time

May 6, 2017December 10, 2025 Malik Merchant, Editor

The Aga Khan’s Diamond Jubilee: Glimpses from “an incomparable occasion”

March 29, 2017December 10, 2025 Malik Merchant, Editor

The Aga Khan: Sweet and endearing stories of his childhood days in Kenya

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