Biography
Ali was proclaimed Sultan of Zanzibar on 20 July 1902, following the death of his father, the seventh Sultan, two days earlier. There was a regency until he attained majority. He served only a few years as sultan because of illness. On 9 December 1911 he abdicated in favour of his brother-in-law Khalifa bin Harub Al-Busaid.References
1884 births 1918 deaths Al Said dynasty Monarchs who abdicated Ali bin Hamud Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery Zanzibari royalty 19th-century Arabs 20th-century Arabs 19th-century Omani people 20th-century Omani people {{Africa-royal-stub