Ali al-Kourani (Arabic: علي الكوراني) is a Lebanese Shia cleric. He was born in 1944 in Yater 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 (Arabic: معجم فقهى) and Mustafa Center for Religious Studies (Arabic: 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.
Books
He has written many books, many of them listed below:
Epoch of Appearance (Arabic: عصرالظهور) 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 believes. 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 book he points to Sunni view point about Imam Mahdi.
Smoothing of Appearance of Mahdi (Arabic: الممهدون للمهدی)
Saint Peter in Islamic narrations (Arabic: شمعون الصفا وصي المسيح(ع) وجد الإمام المهدي(ع)لأمه)
Imam Hasan al-Askari father of Imam Mahdi (Arabic: الإمام الحسن العسكري(ع) والد الإمام المهدي الموعود)
Questions about Mahdaviat (Arabic: أسئلةٌ مهدوية)
To know and love Allah Almighty (Arabic: في معرفة الله تعالى وحبه عز وجل)
Answer to the suspicion of Sheikh Sayed to vision of Imam al-Mahdi (Arabic: جواب على شبهة شيخ وسيد في رؤية الإمام المهدي)
Description of Al-Yasin prayer (Arabic: شرح زيارة آل ياسين)
Life of Imam Ali al-Hadi full of jihad and miracles (Arabic: الإمام علي الهادي (ع) عمر حافل بالجهاد والمعجزات)
Vocabulary words of the Quran Raghib Isfahani with Notes (Arabic: مفردات ألفاظ القرآن للراغب الاصفهاني مع ملاحظات)