Ali al-Kourani
علي الكوراني
Al-Kourani as a young man
Personal
Born(1944-11-22)22 November 1944
Yater, Lebanon
Died19 May 2024(2024-05-19) (aged 79)
Qom, Iran
ReligionIslam
RegionIraq – Lebanon
DenominationTwelver Shi'a
JurisprudenceJa`fari
ProfessionMuslim scholar
RelativesHossein al-Korani (brother)
Muslim leader
Influenced by
ProfessionMuslim scholar
Websitealameli.net

Ali al-Kourani (Arabic: علي الكوراني; 22 November 1944 – 19 May 2024) was a Lebanese Shia scholar cleric. He was born in 1944 in Yater (Lebanon) In Jabal Amel, migrating to Najaf, Iraq to study in a hawza in 1958.

In 1967, Grand Ayatollah Muhsin al-Hakim sent him to Kuwait to educate Shia people.[1] He returned to Lebanon in 1974, and established a mosque and a hospital. He lived in Lebanon until 1980. After the Islamic Revolution in Iran, he moved to Qom, Iran. He established the Centre of the Encyclopaedia of Islamic Jurisprudence (Arabic: معجم فقهى) and the Mustafa Centre for Religious Studies (Arabic: مرکز المصطفى للدراسات الدینیه) in Qom.[2][3]

Al-Kournai died from a heart attack in Qom, on 19 May 2024, at the age of 79.[4]

His teachers

Research

Most of his research in hadiths is focused on Imam Mahdi, his appearance and the circumstances of the world before his coming. In his last years, he was frequently interviewed in Shia communities for providing political analysis of Middle East developments in the light of End Time Hadiths. He believed that according to prophecies the recent events in the Mid-East are a prelude to Imam Mahdi's appearance. For example, he held that the creation of a group which closely resembles ISIS had been prophesied in Shia narrations, particularly in a hadith from Ali ibn Abi Talib. As for Mahdi's utopian government, he stressed that it would be incomparable to existing governments of the world.[5][6]

Books

He wrote many books, many of them listed below:

See also

References

  1. ^ Louër, Laurence (2012). Transnational Shia politics : religious and political networks in the Gulf (Repr. ed.). London: Hurst. pp. 111–4. ISBN 9781849042147.
  2. ^ a b موقع سماحة الشيخ علي الكوراني العاملي – السيرة الذاتية Archived 19 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine al-Ameli.net – Biography (in Arabic)
  3. ^ "Ayatollah Sheikh Ali Kourani Ameli". Tebyan. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  4. ^ Senior Lebanese Shia Scholar Ayatollah Ali Al-Kourani Passes Away
  5. ^ Al-Kourani, Ali. "The emergence of "ISIS" is a sign of the approaching advent of Imam Mahdi" (Interview). Interviewed by Shia-Online. Archived from the original on 10 February 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  6. ^ Al-Kourani, Ali. "Point of Imam Ali to ISIS" (Interview). Interviewed by Shafaqna.[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ Kourani, Ali. Asr Zohor. Translated by Haqi, Mahdi. Institute of Research and publication of sciences of Ahl Al Bayt. ISBN 964-497-007-1.

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