Famous Last Will and Testament Muslim Leader Aga Khan III

About the last will and testament of famous Muslim leader Aga Khan III.

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AGA KHAN III, Muslim religious leader, died 1957

Last Will: He astonished the world by skipping two sons to name his 20-year-old grandson. Prince Karim Khan, as Aga Khan IV. He said that considering "the fundamentally altered conditions of the world... I am convinced ...that I should be succeeded by a young man...brought up and developed... in the midst of the new age, and who brings a new outlook on life to his office." His widow, the begum,"in whose wise judgment I place the greatest confidence," was directed to guide her grandson on general policy for seven years. By Muslim law, three equal parts of the $1.5 million estate went to the begum and two other sons, Prince Aly and Prince Sadruddin Khan.