Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Ikhshid

Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Ikhshid (Arabic: أبو الحسن علي بن الإخشيد) was the third ruler of the autonomous Ikhshidid dynasty, which ruled Egypt, Syria and the Hejaz for the Abbasid Caliphate.

He was a younger son of the dynasty's founder, Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid,[1] and reigned from the death of his elder brother Unujur in 961.

Actual power throughout his reign was held by the capable black eunuch Abu'l-Misk Kafur.

[3] Ali died in January 966, and was buried in Jerusalem next to his father and brother, at a location close to the Gate of the Tribes on the Temple Mount.

The Ikhshidid state was weakened by internal turmoil and a succession of bad harvests, however, leading to its fall to the Fatimids in 969.