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AGA KHAN III

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 363 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGA See also:KHAN III . (See also:Sultan Mahommed Shah), only son of the foregoing, succeeded him on his See also:death in 1885, and became the See also:head of the See also:family and its devotees. He was See also:born in 1877, and, under the care of his See also:mother, a daughter of the ruling See also:house of See also:Persia, was given not only that religious and See also:oriental See also:education which his position as the religious See also:leader of the Ismailiahs made indispensable, but a See also:sound See also:European training, a boon denied to his See also:father and grandfather. This blending of the two systems of education produced the happy result of fitting this Moslem See also:chief in an eminent degree both for the sacerdotal functions which appertain to his spiritual position, and for those social duties of a See also:great and enlightened leader which he was called upon to See also:discharge by virtue of that position. He travelled in distant parts of the See also:world to receive the See also:homage of his followers, and with the Abject either of settling See also:differences or of advancing their welfare See also:AGAMEMNON 363 by pecuniary help and See also:personal See also:advice and guidance. The distinction of a See also:knight See also:commander of the See also:Indian See also:Empire was conferred upon him by See also:Queen See also:Victoria in 1897, and he received like recognition for his public services from the See also:German See also:emperor, the sultan of See also:Turkey, the shah of Persia and other potentates. See See also:Naoroji M. Dumasia, A Brief See also:History of the Aga Khan (1903). (M. M. BH.) AGALMATOLITE (from Gr. &yaXµa, statue, and XiOos, See also:stone), a soft See also:species of See also:mineral, also called pagodite, used by the See also:Chinese for See also:carving, especially into See also:grotesque figures (whence called " figure-stone ").

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