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TIL When the 48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili, Aga Khan III, died in 1957 his will declared his grandson his successor. This was the first time succession had not passed from father to son in the sect's 1300 year history. Aga Khan III felt that the rapidly changing world needed a young leader.

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