Ali Shah Durrani (Persian: علی شاه درانی) also known as Ali Shah Abdali, was ruler of the Durrani Empire from 1818 to 1819. He was the son of Timur Shah Durrani, an Afghan from the Pashtun ethnic group.[1] and the penultimate Durrani Emperor. He was strangled by his brother Shah Isma'il in 1818 or 1819.[2]