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Article: Review of 2007: this year the Aga Khan celebrated his 70th birthday and his golden jubilee as spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims. His extraordinary investment in arts and architecture includes plans for a museum of Islamic art.(Prince Karim Aga Khan IV )
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- December 1, 2007
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Religious leader, philanthropist, diplomat, horse breeder, business tycoon, jet-setter, patron of architecture and heritage preservation: at 70 years old, Prince Karim Aga Khan IV is many things to many people. Currently celebrating his 50th year as Imam or spiritual leader to a global community of around 20m Ismaili Muslims, the Aga Khan may be a familiar figure in the winners' enclosure at Epsom or in paparazzi photographs on the Costa Smerelda, yet he remains an extremely private person, leading a life that few understand well.
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He assumed the Imamate on the death of his grandfather in 1957. The ...