al-Mujahid Ali

Al-Mujahid Ali was the fifth Rasulid sultan of Yemen, ruling from 1321 to 1363 after his father al-Mu'ayyad Dawud. In 1324 the Zaydi imams seized Sanaa, confining Rasulid power to the southern highlands and the Tihamah.

In 1350, while on pilgrimage at Mecca, he was seized by the Egyptian Mamluks and held captive for a year. He reformed taxation, assessing land tax on the average yield of several years, and died in 1363, succeeded by his son al-Afdal Abbas.