1229) was, according to the Llibre dels fets, "a Saracen ... from La Palomera" who defected during the conquest of Majorca and swam out to the fleet of King James I of Aragon with intelligence about the island.
[2][3] According to Desclot, ʿAlī was the majordomo of the "king of Majorca" (the governor Abū Yaḥyā).
He chose to defect when his mother, an astronomer, warned him that James would conquer the island.
The local poet Pere d'Alcàntara Penya i Nicolau [ca] (1823–1906) collected the stories and published a poem on them under the title N'Alí de la Palomera in 1871.
Another poet, Tomàs Forteza i Cortès [ca] (1838–1898), wrote a similar poem on the woman's astrological feats.