Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Bey b. ʿAlī al-Turkī (r. 1148–69/1735–56), widely known as ʿAlī Bāshā, was the son of the stepbrother of Ḥusayn Bey b. ʿAlī (r. 1117–48/1705–35), the founder of the Ḥusaynid dynasty in Tunis (r. 1117–1376/1705–1957). His parental grandmother descended from the tribe of Awled Shennouf (or al-Shenenfa, Awlād Shanūf) who dominated the town and the region of al-Kāf, in the western border region of the province of Tunis. When his uncle Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī appointed him in 1118/1706 as co-commander of the maḥalla (the military force that travelled twice a year a…