Mar'i al-Karmi
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مرعي يوسف أبي بكر الكرمي
1580
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| Personal life | |
| Born | Mar'i Yusuf Abi Bakr al-Karmi مرعي يوسف أبي بكر الكرمي 1580 |
| Died | 1624 (aged 43–44) |
| Resting place | Tulkarm, Jerusalem, Cairo[1] |
| Nationality | Ottoman Empire |
| Era | 16th century 17th century |
| Region | Arab world |
| Main interest(s) | Fiqh, Tafsir, Aqeedah |
| Notable work(s) | Dalīl al-ṭālib li-nayl al-maṭālib (in Arabic Wikipedia) |
| Education | Al-Azhar |
| Occupation | Scholar of Islam |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanbali |
| Creed | Athari |
| Muslim leader | |
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Marʻī ibn Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr Aḥmad al-Karmī (Arabic: مرعي بن يوسف بن أبي بكر بن أحمد الكرمي; 1580, Tulkarm – 1624, Cairo), often referred as Marʻī ibn Yūsuf al-Karmī, was a Muslim scholar and one of the most famous Hanbali scholars in the Arab world.[2] He was born in Tulkarm, and died in Cairo. He authored several books and most of them are related to Islam.
Mar'i al-Karmi was born in Tulkarm in Palestine on April 1580 in the sixteenth century.[1] There are differences among Muslim scholars about his year of birth. Karmi grew up in Tulkarm,[3] and he completed his education from Tulkarm,[4] then he studied Islamic sciences in Jerusalem.[3]
After that, he went to Egypt and joined the Al-Azhar.[3] There, he studied with Shaykh Manṣūr al-Buhūtī.[5] Mar'i al-Karmi became one of the famous scholars of Al-Azhar,[5] then he became the main Shaykh in the Mosque of Sultan Hassan.[5]
Works
His works has been collected in "Majmu' Rasail al-'Allamah Mar'i al-Karmi al-Hanbali".
He was the author of more than one hundred books in many subjects such as Fiqh, Aqeedah, Tafsir, history, poetry and Quranic studies.[5] Some of them are:
- Bahjat al-Nazirin wa Ayat al-Mustadillin (The Delight of Onlookers and the Signs for Investigators), a treatise on cosmology and eschatology (the affairs of the Last Judgment and the Afterlife).[6]
- Farāʾid Fawāʾid al-Fikr fī al-Imām al-Mahdī al-Muntaẓar (Unique Benefits of Contemplation on the Awaited Imam Mahdi)[7]
- Dalīl al-ṭālib li-nayl al-maṭālib.[8]
- Shifāʼ al-ṣudūr fī ziyārat Al-Mashāhid wal Qubūr
- Al-Kawākib ad-Duriya fī Manāqib Al-Mujtahid Ibn Taymiyyah
- Aqāwīl al-thiqāt fī tā'wīl al-asmā' wa-al-sifāt wa-al-ayāt al-muhkamāt wa-al-mutashabahāt.
- Taḥqīq al-burhān fī ithbāt ḥaqīqat al-mīzān.[9]
- Lafẓ al-muwaṭṭaʼ fī bayān al-ṣalāh al-wusṭá.[10]
- Dafʻ al-Shubhah.[11]
- Qalāʼid al-marjān fī al-nāsikh wa-al-mansūkh min al-Qurʼān.[12]
Personal life
He was married and had two sons, Yahya and Ahmad.[5]
