Ali Al-Kourani

Life & Legacy

Ali al-Kourani (Arabic: علي الكوراني; 22 November 1944 – 19 May 2024) was a Lebanese Shia scholar cleric. He was born in 1944 in Yatar (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 the Centre of the Encyclopaedia of Islamic Jurisprudence (Arabic: معجم فقهى) and the Mustafa Centre for Religious Studies (Arabic: مرکز المصطفى للدراسات الدینیه) in Qom.
Al-Kourani died from a heart attack in Qom on 19 May 2024 at the age of 79.