The death of the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims, struck a deep chord with Houston’s sizable Ismaili Muslim community Tuesday. His Highness Prince Karim Al-Hussaini,

At the age of 20, Prince Karim Al-Hussaini inherited the reins of a Shia Muslim lineage and used his entrepreneurship to become one of the world’s richest hereditary rulers.

Prince Karim later became widely recognised as Aga Khan IV, serving as the 49th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims. Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Zanzibar President Dr Hussein Mwinyi joined world leaders in mourning his passing.