Permanent President of the All-India Muslim League
In office 1906–1957
Member of the Assembly of The League of Nations
In office 1934–1937
President of the Assembly of The League of Nations
In office 1937–1938
Preceded by
Tevfik Rüştü Aras
Succeeded by
Éamon de Valera
Personal
Born
(1877-11-02)2 November 1877[1]
Karachi, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died
11 July 1957(1957-07-11) (aged 79)[1]
Versoix, near Geneva, Switzerland
Resting place
Mausoleum of Aga Khan, Aswan, Egypt
Religion
Shia Islam
Spouse
Shahzadi Begum
Cleope Teresa Magliano
Andrée Joséphine Carron
Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan (birth name: Yvonne Blanche Labrousse)
Children
Giuseppe Mahdi Khan
Aly Salman Aga Khan
Sadruddin Aga Khan
Parents
Aqa Ali Shah (father)
Shams al-Muluk (mother)
Denomination
Isma'ilism
School
Nizari Ismaili
Lineage
Fatimid
Other names
Sultan Mohammad Shah
Senior posting
Initiation
1885
Post
48th Nizari Imām
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Sultan Muhammad Shah (Arabic: سلطان محمد شاه, romanized: Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh; 2 November 1877 – 11 July 1957), known as Aga Khan III (Persian: آقا خان سوم, romanized: Āqā Khān Suwwūm), was the 48th imam of the Nizari Ism'aili branch of Shia Islam. He was one of the founders and the first permanent president of the All-India Muslim League (AIML). His goal was the advancement of Muslim agendas and the protection of Muslim rights in British India. The League, until the late 1930s, was not a large organisation but represented landed and commercial Muslim interests as well as advocating for British education during the British Raj.[2] There were similarities in Aga Khan's views on education with those of other Muslim social reformers, but the scholar Shenila Khoja-Moolji argues that he also expressed a distinct interest in advancing women's education for women themselves.[3] Aga Khan called on the British Raj to consider Muslims to be a separate nation within India, the famous 'Two Nation Theory'. Even after he resigned as president of the AIML in 1912, he still exerted a major influence on its policies and agendas. He was nominated to represent India at the League of Nations in 1932 and served as President of the League of Nations from 1937 to 1938.[4]
^ abhttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Aga-Khan-III, Biography of Aga Khan III on Encyclopedia Britannica, Updated 18 September 2003, Retrieved 31 March 2017
^John Keay (2001). India: A History. Grove Press. p. 468. ISBN 9780802137975.
^Khoja-Moolji, Shenila (2018). Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. pp. chapter 2. ISBN 9780520298408.
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