Family

His Highness the Aga Khan Visual and Textual Expressions Barakah
The photographs represent members of Mawlana Hazar Imam’s family we have covered in Barakah. This is an ongoing project, and this page will continue to be updated in the weeks and months ahead. Photo collage: Malik Merchant/Barakah.

Prepared and compiled by MALIK MERCHANT
Publisher-Editor, BarakahSimerg and Simergphotos

In each article that we post on Barakah, we provide referrals to other articles of interest, and that is also the case with tributes to Mawlana Hazar Imam’s family members. However, according to the information we gather from our statistics, a majority of the readers do not click on the links, preferring to focus on the piece they are reading. For that reason, and because we are gaining new readers everyday, we have created this page to facilitate easier access to the tributes we have published so far. Readers can then return to this page at their convenience to continue their reading from where they left. Enjoy the photos and highlights of each family member’s contributions to the Imam-of-the-Time, the Jamat and its institutions and the world at large in different facets of human and human-nature endeavours.

Please click on the 11 hyperlinks (or photos) to read the corresponding photo piece

1. The Gift Presented to Mawlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan, on his 85th Birthday

Aga Khan holding 85th birthday gift presented to him on December 13, 2021.
One of two vases presented to Mawlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan, on his 85th auspicious birthday on December 13, 2021. Photo: Fernando Costa / IPL via The Ismaili.

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2. BIRTH OF PRINCE SINAN AGA KHAN AND MEANING OF SINAN

Princess Salwa Aga Khan gazes lovingly at her baby boy, Prince Sinan. The Ismaili Barakah
Princess Salwa Aga Khan gazes lovingly at her baby boy, Prince Sinan. Photo: The Ismaili

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3. BIRTH OF PRINCE IRFAN AGA KHAN AND MEANING OF IRFAN

Prince Rahim, Prince Irfan and Princess Salwa Aga Khan Barakah.com
Prince Rahim and Princess Salwa with their son Prince Irfan. Photo: The Ismaili.

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4. BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE to PRINCE RAHIM AGA KHAN

Prince Rahim Aga Khan Barakah Aziz Azeez Khanbhai
Ismaili artist AzIz Khanbhai’s watercolour painting of Princes Rahim Aga Khan, as a young boy .

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5. BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE to PRINCE HUSSAIN AGA KHAN

Prince Hussain Aga Khan portrait paintings by Ismaili artist Azeez Khanbhai, Barakah exclusive
Ismaili artist AzIz Khanbhai’s watercolour painting of Prince Hussain Aga Khan, as a young boy .

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6. BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE to PRINCESS ZAHRA AGA KHAN

A watercolour painting of Princess Zahra n Aga Khan as a girl by Ismaili artist AzIz Khanbhai. Barakah.com
Ismaili artist AzIz Khanbhai’s watercolour painting of Princess Zahra Aga Khan, as a young girl .

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7. BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE to PRINCE AMYN AGA KHAN

Prince Amyn Aga Khan in the Bellerive Room of the Aga Khan Museum
Prince Amyn Aga Khan in the Bellerive Room of the Aga Khan Museum. Photo: Aga Khan Museum, Lapis 2018 event.

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8. BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE to PRINCESS YASMIN AGA KHAN

Gotfryd, Bernard, Yasmin Khan, Rita Hayworth's daughter, party for Alzheimer's fundraiser, NYC, LOC photo
A portrait photo of Princess Yasmin Aga Khan. Photo: Bernard Gotfryd/Library of Congress Collection.

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9. BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE to PRINCE ALY MUHAMMAD AGA KHAN

Prince Aly Muhammad Aga Khan by Ismaili artist Azeez Khanbhai
Ismaili artist Aziz Khanbhai’s watercolour painting of Prince Aly Muhammad Aga Khan.

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10. TRIBUTE to MATA SALAMAT, OM HABIBEH AGA KHAN (1906 – 2000)

Mata Salamat Om Habibeh Aga Khan Barakah textual and visual expressions
Mata Salamat Om Habibeh Aga Khan standing in front of a portrait of Mawlana Sultan Mahomed Shah at Villa Yakimour in this signed photograph dated on 13 December 1992 (Mawlana Hazar Imam’s 56th birthday). Photo: Nizar Harji Family Collection.

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11. Tribute to Mawlana Sultan Mahomed Shah, His Highness the Aga Khan (1877 – 1957)

Aga Khan portrait paintings by Ismaili artist Azeez Khanbhai, Barakah exclusive
Ismaili artist Aziz Khanbhai’s watercolour painting of Mawlana Sultan Mahomed Shah, His Highness the Aga Khan.

Date posted: March 12, 2022.

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Malik, also Abdulmalek, Merchant, editor and publisher of simerg, barakah and simergphotos
Malik Merchant at Aga Khan Museum courtyard, October 24, 2020.

About the publisher/editor: Malik Merchant is the founding publisher and editor of Barakah (2017) as well as its two sister websites Simerg (2009) and Simergphotos (2012). An IT consultant for more than 30 years, he now engages in family related projects. His passion for literature and community publications began in his childhood years in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, through the work of his late parents Jehangir (d. 2017) and Malek Merchant (d. 2021), who devoted a lifetime of services to the Ismaili community, its institutions and the Imam-of-the-Time. In the UK, Malik edited Ilm magazine with his father. The internet encouraged him to launch his first website, Simerg, in 2009. A resident of Ontario for almost 4 decades, he recently relocated to Alberta. He has been a true musafir (traveller) having lived in more than 10 cities including Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), Dar es Salaam, London, Salt Lake City, Edmonton, Ottawa, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Burlington, Toronto and Calgary. If he would recommend one and only one place to visit, it is Yellowstone National Park. He has an animal loving daughter Dr. Nurin Merchant; she is a vet and practices in Ontario.

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