Karimi, Mansoorali (1929_)
Entrepreneur and philanthropist
Pakistani-Burmese
Mansoorali Karimi is an outstanding example of an immigrant who identified a significant commercial niche in the United States and used his entrepreneurial skills to achieve great success. He accomplished that while also maintaining a firm commitment to serve his ethnic community.
Like his father, Karimi found success not in his country of birth but in his adopted country. Driven by the abject poverty of Kathiawar, India, Karimi’s father, Jivabhai Bhanji embarked on a search for a better life, eventually settling in Rangoon, Burma, in the early 1880s. He became one of the most prosperous Indians in Burma and rapidly attained leadership positions in the growing Ismaili Muslim community of Rangoon. His piety, voluntary service, and charitable activities earned him the trust of Aga Khan III, the forty-eighth imam (spiritual leader) of the Ismaili Muslims…
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