Mirza Muhammad Yusuf Ali (1858 – 30 May 1920) was a Bengali writer and reformer in British India.
[1] Ali was born in 1858 to a Bengali Muslim family of Mirzas in the village of Aliabad in Rajshahi district, Bengal Presidency.
In 1884, he founded the Nur-al-Iman Society, an educational organisation which sought to empower the Muslim community, and served as its first secretary.
[1] Ali was the chief patron of Soltan, a daily newspaper published from Calcutta between 1926 and 1928 and edited by Maniruzzaman Islamabadi.
In 1895, he completed Saubhagya Sparshamani, a five-volume Bengali translation of Al-Ghazali's Kimiya-yi sa'ādat.