Ali bin Said of Zanzibar

Sayyid Ali bin Said al - Busaidi, (* 1854, † March 5, 1893 ) (Arabic: علي بن سعيد البوسعيدي, ʿ Alī b DMG Sa ʿ īd al - ʿ Busa Īdī. ) Was from 1890 to 1893 the Sultan of Zanzibar.

Ali was the younger brother and successor of Sultan Khalifa bin Said of Zanzibar and son of Sultan Said ibn Sultan of Oman. Ali ruled Zanzibar on 13 February 1890 until his death.

1890 Ali was appointed Grand Knight of the Order of the Star of India, had, however, already recognize the British protectorate over Zanzibar and the conversion of the Sultanate into a constitutional monarchy in August of the same year, as between the German Empire and Britain in Zanzibar -Helgoland - contract had been agreed upon. A British advisor was Prime Minister of the Sultanate.

The Italians forced Ali in 1892 to lease the standing so far sansibarischer supremacy coastal cities of Mogadishu, Warsheikh, Merka and Baraawe on the Somali Benadirküste.

With Ali ended the independence of Zanzibar; his two successors were selected by the British representative of the Omani branch of Said dynasty, Oman 1891 was also fallen under British protectorate. Thus, in 1893 Ali ibn Hamid nephew Thuwaini bin Said Sultan of Zanzibar.