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 ()