Hossein Korani Ameli Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Hujjat al-Islam wa l-Muslimīn
(Authority on Islam and Muslims)
Religion:Islam
Sect:Shia, Twelver
Birth Name:Hossein Korani Ameli
Birth Date:1955
Birth Place:Yater village, in area of Jabal Amel, Southern Lebanon
Death Date:2019 (aged 64)
Ethnicity:Arab Lebanese
Region:Iran - Iraq - Lebanon
Profession:Muslim scholar
Influences:Baqir al-Sadr

Hossein Korani Ameli (Hossein al-Korani al-Ameli or Ḥusayn Kūrānī or in Arabic: حسین الکورانی العاملی) was a Lebanese Shiite-Muslim cleric, one of the founders of Hezbollah in Lebanon[1] and members of the Lebanese Hezbollah leadership council.[2] He was the brother of Ali Al-Kourani.

Early life

Hujjat al-Islam wa l-Muslimīn Sheikh Hossein Korani Ameli was born in Yater village in Jabal Amel in southern Lebanon.[1]

Studying in Najaf and Qom

He went to Najaf, Iraq at the age of thirteen to study religious sciences. After a while he went to Qom, Iran and stayed there for about a year and was influenced by Imam Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution of Iran.

Return to Lebanon

When he was in Iran, the Pahlavi dynasty imperial regime expelled him from Iran because of his influence from Imam Khomeini and his activities about Islamic Revolution of Iran.[3] After being deported from Iran, Sheikh Hossein Korani Ameli with Abbas al-Musawi taught religious sciences and Persian language in the Imam al-Montazer seminary of Baalbek, Lebanon.[1]

Iranian Revolution and return to Iran

After the Iranian Revolution, he returned to Iran. Korani had been managing Ahwaz's Arab Radio for a while, and after starting up Arab Radio in Tehran, he worked for the Arab section of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.[2]

Return to Lebanon again

He stayed in Tehran until year 1986 and then returned to Lebanon for religious activities and promotions. When he returned to Lebanon, began to set up an Islamic center in Lebanon with the aim of publishing authentic Islamic culture and publishing his propaganda activities in Lebanon's Sha'a'ir magazine monthly.[4] [5]

Death

Hujjat al-Islam wa l-Muslimīn Sheikh Hossein Korani Ameli, one of the founders of Hezbollah, Lebanon, died Thursday, September 12, 2019, evening at age 64 due to cancer.[6] He died after suffering eight months of illness. He was buried in Qom and in the Fatima Masumeh Shrine.[7]

Following his death, Lebanon's Hezbollah,[2] Mohammad Yazdi on behalf of Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom,[8] Yahya Rahim Safavi,[9] Ebrahim Raisi[10] and Ali Akbar Salehi[11] issued messages.

Books

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

See also

References

  1. News: "درگذشت شیخ حسین کورانی عالم مجاهد و گرانقدر لبنانی" . fa . 1 November 2019. Islamic Republic of Iran News Network.
  2. News: "تسلیت حزب‌الله به مناسبت رحلت شیخ حسین کورانی" . fa . 1 November 2019. Islamic Republic of Iran News Network.
  3. News: "پیکر حجت‌الاسلام و المسلمین شیخ حسین کورانی از علمای لبنان در قم تشییع شد" . fa . 1 November 2019. Islamic Republic News Agency.
  4. News: "تسلیت حزب الله به مناسبت رحلت شیخ حسین کورانی" . fa . 1 November 2019. Islamic Republic of Iran News Network.
  5. News: "درگذشت یکی از علمای بارز لبنان" . fa . 1 November 2019. Al-Alam News Network.
  6. News: "حزب‌الله: شیخ حسین کورانی در شکل گیری مقاومت اسلامی لبنان نقش داشت" . fa . 1 November 2019. AhlulBayt News Agency.
  7. News: "تشییع پیکر شیخ حسین کورانی از علمای لبنان در قم" . fa . 1 November 2019. Kayhan Daily newspaper.
  8. News: "حجت‌الاسلام والمسلمین کورانی در پشتیبانی از جبهه مقاومت مجاهدت های بسیار کرد" . fa . 1 November 2019. Iranian Students News Agency.
  9. News: "پیام تسلیت سرلشکر صفوی در پی درگذشت شیخ حسین کورانی" . fa . 1 November 2019. Iranian Students News Agency.
  10. News: "رئیس قوه قضاییه در پیامی درگذشت حجت‌الاسلام و المسلمین کورانی را تسلیت گفت" . fa . 1 November 2019. Iranian Students News Agency.
  11. News: "صالحی ارتحال "شیخ حسین کورانی" را به دبیرکل حزب‌الله تسلیت گفت" . fa. 1 November 2019. Iranian Labour News Agency.
  12. News: Fī miḥrāb Fāṭimah al-Zahrāʼ (Book, 2002) [WorldCat.org]]. 51825980 . 1 November 2019.
  13. News: The infallible and the text (Book, 2010) [WorldCat.org]]. 589158727 . 1 November 2019.
  14. News: al-Karāmāt al-ghaybīyah lil-Imām al-Khumaynī (Book, 2000) [WorldCat.org]]. 56351129 . 1 November 2019.
  15. News: Between modernity and eternity. (Book, 2011) [WorldCat.org]]. 761864637 . 1 November 2019.
  16. News: Fī al-manhaj _ al-maʻṣūm-- wa-al-naṣṣ-- (Book, 2003) [WorldCat.org]]. 71120965 . 1 November 2019.
  17. News: Maqāṣid al-Basmalah _ khamsūn maqālah fī al-ʻibādah wa-al-akhlāq wa-al-siyāsah al-fāḍilah (Book, 2018) [WorldCat.org]]. 1037563684 . 1 November 2019.
  18. News: Maʻālim al-nahj _ nahj al-Imām al-Khumaynī _ al-usus wa-al-maʻālim _ usus wa-maʻālim li-nahj al-Imām al-Khumaynī al-muqaddas ulqiyat ʻalá majāmīʻ min al-shabāb wa-al-jāmiʻīyīn (Book, 2013) [WorldCat.org]]. 915971633 . 1 November 2019.
  19. News: Ādāb ʻaṣr al-ghaybah (Book, 2005) [WorldCat.org].html]. 234987323 . 1 November 2019.
  20. News: al-Ǧihād al-akbar (Book, 1980) [WorldCat.org]]. 776334937 . 1 November 2019.
  21. News: Fī al-manhaj (Book, 2003) [WorldCat.org]]. 234667942 . 1 November 2019.
  22. News: Turbat Karbalāʼ _ al-ḥudūd wa-al-asrār (Book, 2011) [WorldCat.org]]. 952824389 . 1 November 2019.
  23. News: Ḥawla ruʼyah al-Mahdī al-muntaẓar (Book, 1997) [WorldCat.org]]. 42048221 . 1 November 2019.
  24. News: Lamaḥāt min ḥayāt al-anbiyāʼ wa-al-mursalīn (Book, 2004) [WorldCat.org]]. 297500522 . 1 November 2019.
  25. News: Ruʼyat al-Mahdī al-Muntaẓar _ baḥth ʻaqāʼidī, tārīkhī (Book, 2009) [WorldCat.org]]. 513533118 . 1 November 2019.
  26. News: Fī rihab Karbala (Book, 1991) [WorldCat.org]]. 957198611 . 1 November 2019.
  27. News: Manāhil al-rajāʼ-- _ aʻmāl shahr Rajab (Book, 2003) [WorldCat.org]]. 234635262 . 1 November 2019.
  28. News: Manāhil al-rajāʼ-- _ aʻmāl shahr Ramaḍān (Book, 2003) [WorldCat.org]]. 234667288 . 1 November 2019.

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