Noorani family

The Noorani family is a term used to refer to the immediate family of the Imām of the Nizari Ismāʿīli Shia Muslims, commonly known by the title of Aga Khan.[1] By convention and custom its members and descendants in the male line are titled Prince and Princess, and as such it can be regarded as a royal family, although only the Aga Khan himself, as its head, is entitled to be referred to by the style of His Highness. The style of His Highness was formally granted to the Aga Khan IV by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957 upon the death of his grandfather Aga Khan III.[lower-alpha 1]

Members

Recently deceased members
  • Descendants of Aga Khan III (1877-1957), m. (1944) Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan, Mata Salamat (née Yvonne Blanche Labrousse, 1906–2000)
  • Giuseppe Mahdi Khan (died 1911)
  • Prince Aly Khan (father of Aga Khan IV) (1911-1960), Joan Yarde-Buller (m. 1936 div. 1949), Rita Hayworth (m. 1949 div. 1953)
  • Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (1933-2003) m. (1957, div. 1962) Princess Shirin Aga Khan (née Nina Dwyer), (1972) Princess Catherine Aleya Aga Khan (née Sursock, b. 1938)
  • Andrew Ali Aga Khan Embiricos - (1985-2011), son of Princess Yasmin Aga Khan

Living Former Members
  • Princess Salimah Aga Khan, born 1940, former wife of Aga Khan IV (m. 1969; div. 1995)
  • Inaara Aga Khan, born 1963, former wife of Aga Khan IV (m. 1998; div. 2011)
  • Khaliya Aga Khan, born 1976, former wife of Prince Hussain Aga Khan (m. 2006⁠ –⁠ div. 2013)

References
  1. Najibullah, Farangis (24 August 2012). "Five Things To Know About The Aga Khan". Radio Free Europe. Retrieved 2 January 2020.

Notes
  1. This style has been continually recognized, on a personal basis, by the British monarch, to whom the Aga Khans were previously temporal subjects—the incumbent is a British citizen—since 1866. In 1959, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran—whose Qajar predecessors first awarded Imam Hasan Ali Shah the title of Aga Khan in 1818—bestowed upon Aga Khan IV the higher style of Royal Highness in 1959, but that style fell into disuse following the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
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