ALI, known as ALI BEY (1766-1818), the assumed name of DOMZINGO BADIA Y LEBLICH, a Spanish traveller. Pretending to he a descendant of the Abbasids, Badia in 1803 set out on his travels. Under the name of Ali Bey el Abbassi, and in Muslim costume, he visited Morocco, Tripoli, Egypt, Arabia and Syria. He made the pilgrimage to Mecca, at that time in the possession of the Wahabites. In 1814, Badia published in Paris an account of his travels under the title of Voyage d'Ali Bey en Asie et en A f rique, etc. A few years later he set out again for Syria under the assumed name of Ali Othman and, it is said, accredited as a political agent by the French Government. He reached Aleppo, and there died, not without suspicion of having been poisoned.
An account of his Eastern adventures was published in London in 1816 entitled Travels in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria and Turkey, between the years 1803 and 1807.