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Personal name:
ʿalī Shāh
Died:
August 1885, Poona, India

Aga Khan II (died August 1885, Poona, India) was the eldest son of Aga Khan I. In 1881 he succeeded his father as imam, or spiritual leader, of the Nizārī Ismāʿīlīte sect of Shīʿite Muslims, and, during his short imamate, sought to improve the conditions of the community.

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