Ali ibn Hammud
Sayyid Ali ibn Hammud al-Busaidi (born June 7, 1884 , † December 20, 1918 in Paris , France ) ( Arabic علي بن حمود البوسعيدي, DMG ʿAlī b. Ḥammūd al-Būsaʿīdī ) was Sultan of Zanzibar from 1902 to 1911 . To distinguish it from his great-uncle Ali ibn Said , Ali ibn Hammud was sometimes referred to as Ali II .
Ali was the son and successor of Sultan Hammud ibn Muhammad ibn Said and grandson of Sultan Majid bin Said of Zanzibar, he ruled Zanzibar from July 20, 1902 until his abdication on December 9, 1911. He had received his education in England and there also participated as a guest at the coronation of the British King Edward VII . Later, he also took part in the coronation V. George's part.
His own succession to the throne was the first father-son line to the throne since the founding of the Sultanate of Zanzibar and the result of a union of the Omani line (on the father's side) and the Zanzibari line (on the mother's side) of the Said dynasty . Zanzibar had been under the British protectorate since 1890 and was restricted to the island.In 1892 it had to lease the cities on the Somali Benadir coast under Zanzibari suzerainty to Italy, and in 1893 it was finally sold. The first exceptions were the claims to Mogadishu , which Ali finally sold to Italy in 1905, for which he received the Order of the Crown of Italy . Ali had also been awarded the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle and the Portuguese Order of Our Lady .
Ali not only had to defend himself against the persistent claims of his father's predecessor, who had been driven out by the British (the overthrown Sultan Khalid ibn Barghash resided on the opposite coast in Dar es Salaam), he himself was ailing and felt uncomfortable in Zanzibar. Ali is said to have been so Anglicized that he hardly spoke Swahili or Arabic and even needed an interpreter for conversations with his mother. In 1911 he finally resigned in favor of his brother-in-law Khalifa ibn Harub . He did not abdicate, however, but formally remained sultan and initially only transferred the reign to Khalifa. Ali retired to Switzerland and France, where he eventually died and was buried in the Muslim section of the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris .
Ali was married to a daughter of the Sultan Faisal ibn Turki of Oman.
Individual evidence
- ^ Zanzibar, Family Tree of the Al Bu-Said Dynasty
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| SURNAME | Ali ibn Hammud |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sayyid Ali ibn Hammud al-Busaidi; Ali II |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sultan of Zanzibar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1884 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1918 |
| Place of death | Paris |