Mirza Muhammad Yusuf Ali

Mirza Muhammad Yusuf Ali (1858 – 30 May 1920) was a Bengali writer and reformer in British India.

Early life Ali was born in 1858 to a Bengali Muslim family of Mirzas in the village of Aliabad in Rajshahi district, Bengal Presidency. After completing his studies at the Sreedharpur Bengali Middle School, he enrolled at the Rajshahi Normal School. He passed in quarterly examinations but was unable to continue studying, and so he passed his matriculation in 1887 as a private candidate instead of a regular candidate. In 1889, he could not pass the F.A. examination and did not continue his education. Apart from Bengali and English, Ali was self-taught in Arabic, Persian and Urdu. As part of the society's initiatives, Ali established the Fuller Hostel in Rajshahi and Muslim Hostel in Naogaon. Ali edited the society's newspaper Nur al-Iman and was also the editor of Shikkha Samachar and Shikkha Samabay (1919). He was the founder of Anjuman-e-Hemayate Islam (1891) and Rajshahi District Mussalman Education Society (1918).

Literature His first book Dugdha-Sarobar first published in 1891. In 1895, he completed Saubhagya Sparshamani, a five-volume Bengali translation of Al-Ghazali's Kimiya-yi sa'ādat.

Death Ali died on 30 May 1920.