Baba tarafından ise ecd3adı Fâtımîler Hâlifeliği vasıtasıyla Muhammed Mustafa'ya dayanmaktaydı.<ref name="AgaKhan-Memoirs">{{cite book | title=The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time| last=Aga Khan| year=1954| pages=7, 11
Babası vefât ettiğinde kraliyet ailesinin bir prensi olarak rütbesi [[Nasıreddin Şah|Nâsır el-Dîn Şâh Kaçar]] tarafından da kabul edilmişti. [[Nasıreddin Şah|Nâsır el-Dîn Şâh]]'ın kendisi bizzat ona bir şeref kemeri ile elmaslarla süslü bir fars tacı amblemi hediye etmişti.<ref name="Dumasia-AgaKhan">{{cite book | title=The Aga Khan and His Ancestors: A Biographical and Historical Sketch| last=Dumasia| first=Naoroji M.| year=1939| pages=60–62| publisher=Bombay| location=The Times of India Press}}</ref>
OnBaba histarafından father'sise side, Aga Ali Shah traced his ancestry to the Prophetecd3adı [[Muhammad]],Fâtımîler through his daughter [[Fatimah|FatimaHâlifeliği]] and his son-in-lawvasıtasıyla [[Ali|AliMuhammed b. Abi TalibMustafa]].'ya He also descended from the [[Fatimid]] caliphs of [[Egypt]]dayanmaktaydı.<ref name="AgaKhan-Memoirs">{{cite book | title=The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time| last=Aga Khan| year=1954| pages=7, 11, 192| publisher=Cassell and Company Ltd.| location=London}}</ref> He spent his early years in [[Mehellat]]; however, his father’s attempts to regain his former position as governor of [[Kirman]] made residence there difficult, and so Aqa Ali Shah was taken to [[Iraq]] with his mother in 1840. There he studied [[Arabic]], [[Persian language|Persian]], and [[NizariNizârî]]-[[Ismailiİsmâ‘îlî]] doctrine[[Nizâr’îyye|doktrini]],<ref name="Daftary-Ismailis"/> and soon gained a reputation as an authority on Persian and Arabic literature, as a student of metaphysics, and as an exponent of religious philosophy.<ref name="Dumasia-AgaKhan"/> In the late 1840s, changed political circumstances allowed Aqa Ali Shah to return to [[Iran|Persia]] where he took over some of his father's responsibilities.<ref name="Algar-Iranica">{{cite journal | author=H. Algar| title=Āqā Khān| journal=Encyclopaedia Iranica| year=1996| volume=1}}</ref> In 1853, Sarv-i Jahan Khanum and Aqa Ali Shah joined Aga Khan I in [[Bombay]]. As his father's heir apparent to the Ismaili Imamat, Aqa Ali Shah frequently visited various Ismaili communities in South Asia, particularly those in Sind Bölgesi ile [[Kathiavar Yarımadası]].<ref name="Daftary-Ismailis"/>
