Ali Al-Kourani

Ali al-Kourani (علي الكوراني) 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 (معجم فقهى) and Mustafa Center for Religious Studies (مرکز المصطفى للدراسات الدینیه) in Qom.

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.

He has written many books, many of them listed below: