Ali ibn Said

Sultan Ali bin Said

Sayyid Ali ibn Said al-Busaidi , (* 1854 - March 5, 1893 ) ( Arabic علي بن سعيد البوسعيدي, DMG ʿAlī b. Saʿīd al-Būsaʿīdī ) was Sultan of Zanzibar from 1890 to 1893 .

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

In 1890 Ali was appointed Grand Knight of the Order of the Star of India , but in August of the same year he had to recognize the British protectorate over Zanzibar and the conversion of the sultanate into a constitutional monarchy, as happened between the German Empire and Great Britain in Zanzibar-Helgoland- Contract had been agreed. A British adviser became Prime Minister of the Sultanate.

In 1892 the Italians forced Ali to lease the coastal cities of Mogadishu , Warsheikh , Merka and Baraawe on the Somali Benadir coast, which had previously been under Zanzibarian sovereignty .

With Ali, the independence of Zanzibar ended; his two successors were representatives of the Omani branch of the Said dynasty selected by the British. Oman had also fallen under the British protectorate in 1891. In 1893 Ali's nephew Hamad ibn Thuwaini ibn Said became Sultan of Zanzibar .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Zanzibar, [1]
2. ^ Maria Schlick: Atlas of World History , page 162f. Neuer Kaiser Verlag, Klagenfurt 2007.

literature

• Heinrich Loth : History of Africa from the Beginnings to the Present, Part II, Africa under imperialist colonial rule and the formation of the anti-colonial forces 1884–1945. Page 31f. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1976