When international delegations attended the European Commission’s conference on Syria on March 17, Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini, or Aga Khan V, attended alongside them. Addressing the conference, he reiterated his community’s more than millennium-long history in Syria and recommitted the Ismaili Imamat and its development arm, the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), to “ongoing and permanent support for the Syrian people” and a “determination to help foster peace, hope, and development for a better future.” As Prince Rahim steps more fully into his father’s vacated role, the question remains how he will be able to wield the title’s “integral presence” in the years to come. His appearance in Brussels was surely just a start. But it was also continuing a hundred-plus-year legacy, said religion professor Khalil Andani “We expect the new Aga Khan to continue his father’s modus operandi,” he said. “We expect him to be a great example of how ancient theological ideas and philosophical principles can be enacted for the practical benefit of people all over the world today.”