Ali bin Hamud of Zanzibar

Sayyid Ali ibn al - Busaidi Hammud (* June 7, 1884, † December 20, 1918 in Paris, France) (. Arabic علي بن حمود البوسعيدي, ʿ Alī b DMG Hammud al - ʿ Busa IDI) was from 1902 to 1911 the Sultan of Zanzibar. To distinguish him from his great-uncle Ali ibn Said ibn Ali Hammud was sometimes referred to as Ali II

Ali was the son and successor of Sultan ibn Muhammad ibn Said Hammud and grandson of Sultan Majid bin Said of Zanzibar, he ruled Zanzibar from 20 July 1902 until his abdication on December 9, 1911. He had received his education in England and there also participated as guest at the coronation of the British King Edward VII. Later he took part in the coronation of George V..

His own throne was the first father-son succession since the founding of the Sultanate and the result of an association of the Omani line ( father's side) and the Zanzibar line ( mother's side) of the Said dynasty. Since 1890, Zanzibar was under British protectorate and was limited to the island, in 1892 it had to lease the under sansibarischer supremacy towns on the Somali Benadirküste to Italy in 1893 eventually forced to sell. Excluded were initially claims to Mogadishu, which Ali 's 1905 sold to Italy, for which he was awarded the Order of the Crown of Italy. Ali was also awarded the Prussian Red Eagle and the Portuguese Order of Our Lady.

Ali had not only the persistent claims of the exiled by the British predecessor, his father's ward ( the deposed Sultan Khalid ibn Bargash resided on the opposite coast in Dar es Salaam ), he also was ailing and felt uncomfortable in Zanzibar. Ali said to have been already so anglicised that he hardly spoke Swahili or Arabic, and even talking with his mother, an interpreter should have needed. In 1911 he finally resigned in favor of his brother Khalifa ibn Harub. However, he thanked not decrease, but remained formally continue Sultan and transferred Khalifa initially only the regency. Ali retired to Switzerland and to France, where he died and was buried in the Muslim part of Paris' Père Lachaise.

Ali was married to a daughter of the Sultan Faisal bin Turki of Oman.

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