AMIR 'ALI, SEYYID (1849-1928), Indian jurist and Mus lim leader, was born April 6, 1849, of an Arab family, tracing descent from the Prophet, which migrated from Persia and settled at Mohan in Oudh in the middle of the i8th century. A,t Hugli college, Calcutta, he graduated in 1867. He came to London and was called to the bar of the Inner Temple in 1873. He had already published A Critical Examination of the Life and Teach ings of Mahomed, the first of a series of books of Islamic mod ernist interpretation and apologetics, which have given him a recognized place in English literature. He was for some years a lecturer on Mohammedan law at the Presidency College, Calcutta, and afterwards President of the faculty of law at the university there. He was also chief presidency magistrate of Calcutta and in 1890 was appointed a judge of the Bengal High Court, being the first Mohammedan to reach the bench in India. He was made a C.I.E. in 1887. In 1904 he retired and settled in England. He was the first Indian to be sworn (Nov. 1909) of the Privy Council and to serve on its judicial committee. But his chief ambition in life was the advancement of the Indian Muslims, both morally and materially, along practical and constitutional lines and his activ ities paved the way for the Morley-Minto and subsequent reforms. He died at his home at Rudgwick, Sussex, on Aug. 3, 1928.