Ali ibn Shuab al-Tiflis was a leader of the Emirate of Tiflis, an Arab state in Georgia that reigned from 829 to 833.
A member of the Shuabid dynasty, he was a subject of the Abbasid province of Arminiya and was appointed to replace a rebellious emir.
In 829, he was appointed emir al-Tiflis, leading the Arab administration at the center of Georgian territories, by Khalid ibn Yazid al-Shaybani, the Abbasid governor of Arminiya, who had deposed the rebellious emir Muhammad bin Atab, thus restoring the Shuabid dynasty.
Leading Arab forces in Georgia, he faced the Reconquista ambitions of Ashot I Bagrationi, Kouropalates in Iberia.
The latter was murdered in January 830 by orders of the Abbasid governor of Arminiya,[1] while Ali managed to reject the advances of Ashot's successor Bagrat I and forced him to pay tribute.