{{short description|Khan of the Chagatai Khanate}} {{Expand Italian|topic=bio|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox royalty | name =Ali Sultan | title = | image =The Martyrdom of the Franciscans (1342) Ali Sultan.jpg | caption = Ali Sultan, as depicted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in ''The Martyrdom of the Franciscans'' in 1342 | succession = Khan of Chagatai Khanate | reign = 1339-1342 | predecessor = Yesun Temur | successor = Muhammad I ibn Pulad | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date =1342 | death_place = |spouse= | father = | mother = | religion = | image_size = | succession1= | reign1= | successor1 = | predecessor1= | royal house = }}
'''{{'}}Ali Khalil''' (Chagatai and Persian: علی خلیل), also known as '''Ali-Sultan''' (Chagatai and Persian: علی سلطان), was the khan (r.1339-1342)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baumer |first1=Christoph |title=The History of Central Asia: The Age of Islam and the Mongols |date=30 May 2016 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-83860-940-5 |page=319 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LhiWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA319 |language=en}}</ref> of the Chagatai Khanate. He was a descendant of Kadan, son of the second Great Khan Ögedei.
'Ali attacked the ordo (palace) of Yesun Temur and usurped the throne. He was the first and last one who had restored the Ögedeid authority over the Chagatai Khanate since the reigns of Kaidu and his son Chapar. During his reign, Islam fully absorbed the Chagatai Mongols and 'Ali persecuted followers of other religions. He is the one who ordered the killing of six Franciscan friars at Almalik in 1339, as depicted in ''The Martyrdom of the Franciscans'', by Ambrogio Lorenzetti.<ref name="RP">{{cite book |last1=Prazniak |first1=Roxann |title=Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art |date=31 March 2019 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=978-0-8248-7808-5 |page=98 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mVnGDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA98 |language=en}}</ref>
<gallery widths="170px" heights="170px" perrow="4"> File:Ambrogio_Lorenzetti,_Martirio_di_cinque_frati_francescani,_1336-37_circa,_dalla_sala_capitolare_(detail).jpg|''The Martyrdom of the Franciscans'', painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in 1342, took place in Almaliq in 1339. The central ruler who ordered the killing was Ali Sultan.<ref name="RP"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Camps |first1=Arnulf |title=Studies in Asian Mission History, 1956-1998 |date=15 February 2000 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-474-0031-8 |page=187 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h-HzDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA187 |language=en}}</ref> File:Mongol tumen commander.jpg|Mongol tumen commander. File:Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Martirio di cinque frati francescani, 1336-37 circa, dalla sala capitolare, 10.jpg|Martyrdom of five Franciscan friars </gallery>
{{s-start}} {{s-hou|House of Ögedei}} {{s-bef | before=Yesun Temur}} {{s-ttl |title=Khan of Chagatai Khanate | years=1339-1342}} {{s-aft | after=Muhammad I ibn Pulad}} {{end}}
== References == {{reflist}} * Ц.Энхчимэг - "Монголын цагаадайн улс" 2006 он * THE SHAJRAT UL ATRAK, OR GENEALOGICAL TREE OF THE TURKS AND TATARS; TRANSLATED AND ABRIDGED translated by Col. Miles.
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