no fixed abode, Ali spent most of the last decade of his life either living in the National Liberal Club, in the Royal Commonwealth Society or wandering about the streets of London and living in poverty despite having £20,578 16s 3d in the bank. On 9 December 1953 Ali was found destitute and in a bewildered condition in a doorway in Westminster by the police who took him to Westminster Hospital. He was discharged the following day and was taken in by a London County Council home for the elderly in Dovehouse Street in Chelsea. Here he suffered a heart attack on 10 December and was rushed to St Stephen's Hospital in Fulham where he died alone the same day. No relatives claimed the body but Ali was known to the Pakistan High Commission; they arranged his funeral and burial in the Muslim section at Brookwood Cemetery near Woking. Ali's Quran translation There have been 30 printed versions of his Quran translation. In Saudi Arabia, the state-sponsored Presidency of Islamic Researches, has modified the original Yusuf Ali translation. The Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project, whose "particular emphasis [is] on the Twelver Shi'ah Islamic school of thought", has analysed printings of Ali's translations to ascertain whether they have maintained Ali's understandings of the original Arabic text. They have determined there have been changes. References External links 1872 births 1953 deaths Writers from Mumbai Dawoodi Bohras Indian Ismailis British Ismailis 20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam Shia scholars of Islam Translators of the Quran into English Burials at Brookwood Cemetery Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature University of Mumbai alumni Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge 20th-century Indian translators Indian Sunni Muslims Converts to Sunni Islam from Shia Islam Indian Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Indian Civil Service (British India) officers Members of Lincoln's Inn