Ali bin Hamud of Zanzibar
Template:Short description Template:For Template:Infobox royalty Sayyid Ali bin Hamud al-Busaidi (7 June 1884 – 20 December 1918; Template:Langx), also known as Ali II, was the eighth Sultan of Zanzibar from 1902 to 1911.<ref name="Karpat2001"/>
Biography
Hamud 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.<ref name="Karpat2001"/>
During his reign, slavery in Zanzibar was fully abolished with the abolition of concubinage in 1909.<ref>The End of Slavery in Africa. (1988). USA: University of Wisconsin Press. 23</ref>
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- 1884 births
- 1918 deaths
- Al Said dynasty
- Monarchs who abdicated
- Sultans of Zanzibar
- Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa
- Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Zanzibari royalty
- 19th-century Arab people
- 20th-century Arab people
- 19th-century Omani people
- 20th-century Omani people
- Sons of sultans