Ali Al-Kourani

Ali Al-Kourani
Ali al-Kourani is 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. 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 center of Fiqhi Lexicon and Mustafa Center for Religious Studies in Qom.
His teachers
Grand Ayatollah Muhsin al-Hakim.
Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei.
Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr.
Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Saeed Al-Hakim.
Researches
Most of his research in hadiths is focused on Imam Mahdi, his appearance and the circumstances of the world before his coming. Over the recent years, he has been frequently interviewed in Shia communities for providing political analysis of Middle East developments in the light of End Time Hadiths. He believes that according to prophecies the recent events in Mid-East are prelude to appearance of Imam Mahdi. For example, he holds that creation of a group which closely resembles ISIS has been prophesied in Shia narrations, particularly in a hadith from Ali ibn Abi Talib. As for the utopian government of Mahdi, he stresses it will incomparable to existing governments of the world.
Books
He has written many books, many of them listed below:
Epoch of Appearance is the most famous book of Ali Al-Kourani. This book is written in Arabic. This book is about the events that occur before the appearance of Imam Mahdi in Shia beliefs. In this book he describes the fate of nations and ethnicities, such as Iran, Yemen, Egypt, Iraq, Romans, Turks, Jews and Arabsat in the End time according to the Shia and Sunni narrations. Also in a part of the book he mentions a Sunni viewpoint about Imam Mahdi.
Smoothing of Appearance of Mahdi
Saint Peter in Islamic Narrations
Imam Hasan al-Askari Father of Imam Mahdi
Questions About Mahdaviat
To Know and Love Allah Almighty
Answer to the Suspicion of Sheikh and Sayed in the Vision of Imam al-Mahdi
Description of Al-Yasin Prayer
Life of Imam Ali al-Hadi is Full of Jihad and Miracles
Vocabulary Words of the Quran Raghib Isfahani with Notes
Imam Muhammad al-Jawad
Dajjal of Basra
Three Births
Egypt and Ahl Al-Bayt
New Reading About Islamic Conquests(Two volumes)
Reading the New Wars of Apostasy
Islamic Beliefs (Five volumes)
The Victory (Nine volumes)
Jewel of History
The Thousand Questions and Forms on the Violators of the Ahl Al-Bayt(Three volumes)
The Knowledge of Allah
Codification of the Quran
The Lexicon Substantive Ahadith of Imam Mahdi
How Shias Responded to the Mongol Invasion
Quran of Ali
Interpretation of the Three Verses of Ghadir
The Quraysh Conflict with the Prophet
In Search of Light
Tidings of the Prophet To Twelve Imams
The Book of Truth is Set Forth in the Knowledge of the Infallible
Response to Extremist Fatwas
Verses of Qadir
From Prayers of Prophet
Human Rights at the Ahl Al-Bayt
Point of View About Marja'
A Book About Ahmad Al-Katib
Rosary of Karbala
What is Narrated in Oversight of the Prophet and His Sleep
Fruits of Ideas
Ali al-Akbar ibn Husayn Was Similar to His Grandfather Mustafa
Islamic Unity from the Viewpoint of the Ahl Al-Bayt
Write Down on My Winding Sheet
Sirah Rasul Allah Among Ahl Al-Bayt (Three volumes)
Epoch of Shia
Imam Musa al-Kadhim the Lord of Baghdad
To the Seeker of Knowledge (His Biography)
Arab Tribal Series in Iraq (Ten volumes)
Pearls of Grammar
See also
List of Shia Muslim scholars of Islam
References
External links
His official website
1944 births
Lebanese Shia Muslims
Living people
Critics of Sunni Islam
Islamic Dawa Party