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 'All 37 Ali fhe year 1672 A. D., 1083 A. H. after a turbulent reign of 11 or 12 years. He was succeeded by his son Sikandar 'Adil Shah.. 'Ali Ahmad, <^*=^^ ts^^ ^^i'-', (Shaikh) the son of Shaikh Husain Nakshi, a learned man and engraver who died suddenly on hearing a verse of the poet Khwaja Hasan of Dihli repeated in the presence of the emperor Jahangfr on the 13th of April, 1609 0. S., 18th Muharram, 1018 H. 'Ali Akbar, C5^*j the eldest son of Imam Husain, killed in battle together with his father on the 10th Octo- ber, 680 A. D. 'Ali Akbar, ls^j author of the work called " Majma'- ul-Aulia", containing a detailed account of all the Mu- hammadan saints, dedicated to the emperor Shah Jahan who was a great admirer of saints, A. D. 1628, 1038 A. H. the " Fasul Akbari", and " Usui Akbari", and several other works. 'Ali Asghar, j.i.^^jls>^ proper name of Imam Zain-ul- 'Abidin, which see. 'Ali Asghar, (jr^j^'j^'^^ i^^, of Kanauj, author of a commentary on the Kuran called " Sawakib-ut-Tanzil". He died in the year 1727 A. D., 1140 A. H. 'Ali Bae, cs'- iS^^j (whose name is spelt in our EngHsh Biographical Dictionaries AH Bey) was a native of Nato- lia, son of a Greek priest. In his 13th year he was carried away by some robbers as he was hunting, and sold to Ibrahim, a lieutenant of the Janissaries, at Grand Cairo, who treated him with kindness. 'All distinguished himself against the Arabs, but when his patron was basely assas- sinated in 1758, bj' Ibrahim the Circassian, he avenged his death, and slew the murderer with his own hand. This violent measure raised him enemies, and his flight to Jerusalem and to Ptolemais or Acre with difficulty saved him from the resentment of the Ottoman Porte, that had demanded his head. Time, however, paved the way to his elevation. Those who had espoused the cause of the Circassian were sacrificed to the public safety ; and 'AH recalled by the public voice, governed the country with benevolence and equity. In a battle fought against a re- bellious Mamluk to whom he had entrusted part of his army, 'Ali saw some of his troops desert, and unwilling to survive a defeat, he defended himself with the fury of a lion, till he was cut down by a sabre and carried to the conqueror's tent, where eight days after he expired of his wounds, April 21st, 1773, in his 45th year, and left behind him a character unrivalled for excellence, for courage, and magnanimity, 'Ali Bae, lS""'- the titles by which he was known in the Muhammadan countries, were, al Amir, al-HaHm, al- Fakih, al-Shar'if, al-Haj 'AH Bae ibn Usman Bae al- Abbas, Khadim Baitullah al-Haram, i. e. the prince, the learned, doctor of the law, of the blood of Muhammad, pilgrim, 'AH Bae, son of Usman Bae, of the race of the AlDbasidesi, servant of the house of God. He was master of the Arabic language, and had carefully studied the mathema- tical and natural branches of science and knowledge. It was in 1802 that he visited England. In June 1803 he saUed from Spain to Morocco, and travelled through Tri- poli, Cyprus, Eg}T)t, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey, and wrote a history of his travels, which was translated into Eng- lish and published in London in the year 1816, entitled " The Travels of 'AH Bae." In his visit to the isle of Cy- prus he surveyed some curious remains of antiquity that have been usually overlooked. Having been admitted in his character of a Muhammadan prinoe to sweep the interior of the Ka'ba at Blecca, the most sacred office that 10 a Musalman can perform, and to visit it repeatedly, he has given, from personal inspection a more minute and exact account of the temple of Mecca than other travellers could lay before the pubHc. His notice of the venerated mountain beyond Mecca, the last and principal object of the pilgrimage to that city, and his description of the in- terior of the Temple of Jerusalem, which no Christian is permitted to enter, is said to contain much new informa- tion. 'Ali Bahadur, J-i't'? (J^-r'^y, Nawab of Banda, eldest son of Shamsher Bahadur I, and grandson of the Mar- hatta chief Baji Eao Peshwa I. He received the inves- titure of Bundelkhand from Nana Farnawis, the Puna minister, about the year 1790 A. D. and accompanied bv his brother Gh&nf Bahfldur, aud supported by a powerful army, invaded Bundellihand, but was opposed by Nana Arjun, (the guardian of Bakhat Singh a descendant of Eaja Chatursal) who falling in the contest, and Eaja Ba- khat Singh being taken prisoner, All Bahadur acquired the whole of that part of the raj of Banda which belonged to Bakhat Singh and all the raj of Panna. He reigned about 11 or 12 years, and as at the time of his death, which happened in 1801 or 1802 A. D., his eldest son Shamsher Bahadur II was absent at Puna, his youngest son Zulfikar AH was proclaimed (in violation of the title of his eldest brother) as his successor by his imcle Ghani Bahadur and his Diwan Himmat Bahadur Goshain. Ghani Bahadur, however, was soon after expelled by Shamsher Bahadur who took possession of the raj. 'Ali Bahadur Khan, o'^j^^t^ J^, the last Nawdb of Banda and son of Zulfikar Ali Khan Bahadur. He is the author of a diwan and a masnawi called "Mehr. uUah." He was removed for aUeged compUcity ia the rebelHon of 1857. 'Ali Barid I, "^iy. succeeded his father Amir Ban'd to the throne of Ahmadabad Bi'dar in the Dakhan in the year 1542 A. D. and was the first of this family who as- sumed royalty. He died after a reign of more than 20 years in 1562 A. D., 970 A. H. and was succeeded by his son Ibrahim Barid. 'Ali Barid II, succeeded his father Kasim Ban'd II in the government of Ahmadabad Bidar in 1572 A. D. and was deposed in 1609 by his relative Amir Ban'd II, who suc- ceeded h im, and was the last of this djTiasty. 'Ali Beg, a Pole, bom of Christian parents. When young he was made prisoner by the Tartars and sold to the Turks, who educated him ia the Muhammadan faith. He rose in the Turkish court, and was appointed inter- preter to the Grand Signior, and translated the Bible and the English Catechism into the Turkish language. His great work is on the liturgy of the Turks, their pilgrimao-es to Mecca, and other religious ceremonies, translated into Latin by Dr. Smith. He died 1675 A. D. 'Ali Beg, (Mirza), y>^ a native of Badakhshan who held a high rank in the service of the emperor Akbar ; and was honored with the office of 4,000 in the rein-n of J ahangir. He accompanied the emperor one day to %-isit the shrine of the celebrated saint, Shaikh Main-uddm Chishti at Ajmir, and happening to see the tomb of Shahbaz Khan Kambu, he embraced it, and crying out with a loud voice, that, " he, when Hving, was one of his oldest and best friends," gave up the ghost. This hap- pened on the nth of March, 1616 0. S., 2nd Eabi I, 1025 A. H. 'Ali bin al-Husain al-Masa'udi al-HudaUi, ^^J the far-famed author of the Manij-uz- Zahab, and who has been, with some justice, termed the Herodotus of the East, was also a writer on the Shia' traditions. He died in 957 A. D., 346 A. H.
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