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Ali al-Kourani
Personal
Born1944 (age 79–80)
ReligionIslam
RegionIraqLebanon
JurisprudenceJa`fari
ProfessionMuslim scholar
Muslim leader
Influenced by
ProfessionMuslim scholar
Website[1]

Ali al-Kourani (Template:Lang-ar) 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.[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 center of Fiqhi Lexicon (Template:Lang-ar) and Mustafa Center for Religious Studies (Template:Lang-ar) in Qom.[2][3]

His teachers

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.[4][5]

Books

He has written 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. ^ Al-Kourani, Ali. "The emergence of "ISIS" is a sign of the approaching advent of Imam Mahdi" (Interview). Interviewed by Shia-Online.
  5. ^ Al-Kourani, Ali. "Point of Imam Ali to ISIS" (Interview). Interviewed by Shafaqna.
  6. ^ Kourani, Ali. Asr Zohor. Translated by Haqi, Mahdi. Institute of Research and publication of sciences of Ahl Al Bayt. ISBN 964-497-007-1.