Il sultano Mahommed Shah - Aga Khan III, nato a Karachi il due novembre del 1877 dal matrimonio dell' Aga Khan II con Nawab A'lia Shamsul-Muluk, sua terza moglie, divenne, dopo la morte del padre avvenuta nel 1885, il quarantottesimo Imam dei musulmani ismailiti nizariti.
In 1897 Queen Victoria awarded him the honorary title of Knight Commander of the Indian Ocean.
In 1902 Edward VII awarded him the title of Knight Grand Commander.
In 1906 he founded the Indian Muslim League, which supported the division of the United India in India and Pakistan.
established in 1926 as a hobby, "the Aga Khan Trophy race of thoroughbred racing that takes place every year in Dublin, during the first week of August.
1937 - 1938 he was president League of Nations.
He had four wives:
1 Shahazda Begum, The Aga Khan's nephew and also his cousin, married in 1893
2 Cleope Teresa Magliano, a dancer married in 1903, bore him two sons: Giuseppe Mahdi Khan and Ali Solomon Khan
3 Andrée Joséphine Carron co-owner of a clothing store in Paris, married in 1929 (she never converted to ' Islam), gave him a son, Sadruddin Aga Khan
4 Yvette Blanche Labrousse, Miss France in 1930, married in 1944.
Yvette known as Oum Habibah and after the death of the Aga Khan III (which took place on July 11th 1957 in Aswan), renamed Begum Mata Salamat - Mother of Peace, was the one who built the mausoleum in honor of her husband on the west bank of the Nile opposite the southern side of the island Elephantine, on a promontory overlooking the family villa. In the mausoleum there is a mosque and the tomb of white marble from Carrara, in which were engraved the Qur'an.
I attach an article from page 11
of Corriere della Sera
April 21, 1997
The widow of 'Aga Khan: No tourists the mausoleum
EGYPT The widow of the Aga Khan: No tourists to the mausoleum CAIRO -
The widow of the Aga Khan the third, Umm Habiba - more 'known as the Begum - asked the Egyptian government to close tourist access to the mausoleum housing the remains of her husband in Aswan, in protest against the noisy groups, "without respect and violators of silence due to a cemetery." Ne from 'news the Egyptian daily "Al Ahram", without specifying whether the application is made during the annual visit of the Begum - 85enne and living in Paris - the mausoleum does in winter. The governor of Aswan, Salah Mesnah has sent a message to Karim Agha Khan (fourth), leader of the Ismaili and legitimate heir of the Aga Khan the third, asking him to prevent the closure of the tomb is visited each month by approximately 70 thousand tourists.
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