[1] His research discovered unknown information about Sylheti folk literature, and he wrote 19 books relating to it.

[2] Ali was born into a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Ludorpur in Jagannathpur, Sunamganj Subdivision in 1929.

His mother, Mastura Khatun, was a teacher at the Ludorpur Ayaan Munshi Primary School.

Teachers' Training College, he completed a Bachelor of Education degree from a talent scholarship.

[5] Ali corrected Ahmed Sharif, who wrote in his PhD thesis that medieval writer Shaykh Chand was from Chittagong, that the latter was actually from the Sylhet region.

Ali was the president of the Jalalabad Lekhok Sahitya Sangsad as well as the founding chairman of the Sunamganj Samiti Sylhet.