Shah Aly Shah Aga Khan II (~1830 - 1885) is known to IsmailiMuslims as Imam Shah Aly Shah. He was the 47th Imam (1881-1885). The Ismaili (Persian: اسماعیلیان Esmâiliyân) branch of Islam is the second largest Shia community, after the Twelvers who are dominant in Iran. ... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) is an adherent of Islam. ... Imam is an Arabic word meaning Leader. The ruler of a country might be called the Imam, for example. ...
AgaKhan (ä'gä khän), the title of the religious leader and imam of the Ismaili Nizari sect of Islam, originally bestowed by the Persian shah Fath Ali on Hasan Ali Shah, 1800–1881, the 46th Ismailiimam, in 1818.
AgaKhan (Persian: آغا خان) is the hereditary title of the Imam (spiritual and general leader) of the Nizārī Ismā'īlī Muslims الطائفة الإسماعيلية, a sect of the Shi'a Ismaili branch of Islam which formed in 1094 when the followers of an-Nizār split away from the Mustaˤliyya (followers of Nizar's younger brother al-Musta'li).
In 1818 the title of AgaKhan was bestowed upon Aga Hasan Ali Shah, the 46th Imam of the Ismailis, by Fath Ali, the Shah of Persia.
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