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Mar'i al-Karmi

Marʻī ibn Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr Aḥmad al-Karmī (; 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. He was born in Tulkarm, and died in Cairo. He authored several books and most of them are related to Islam.

Life

Mar'i al-Karmi was born in Tulkarm in Palestine on April 1580 in the sixteenth century. There are differences among Muslim scholars about his year of birth. Karmi grew up in Tulkarm, and he completed his education from Tulkarm, then he studied Islamic sciences in Jerusalem.

After that, he went to Egypt and joined the Al-Azhar. There, he studied with Shaykh Manṣūr al-Buhūtī. Mar'i al-Karmi became one of the famous scholars of Al-Azhar, then he became the main Shaykh in the Mosque of Sultan Hassan.

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. 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).
  • Farāʾid Fawāʾid al-Fikr fÄ« al-Imām al-MahdÄ« al-Muntaẓar (Unique Benefits of Contemplation on the Awaited Imam Mahdi)
  • DalÄ«l al-ṭālib li-nayl al-maṭālib.
  • Shifāʼ al-á¹£udÅ«r fÄ« ziyārat Al-Mashāhid wal QubÅ«r
  • Al-Kawākib ad-Duriya fÄ« Manāqib Al-Mujtahid Ibn Taymiyyah
  • AqāwÄ«l al-thiqāt fÄ« tā'wÄ«l al-asmā' wa-al-sifāt wa-al-ayāt al-muhkamāt wa-al-mutashabahāt.
  • TaḥqÄ«q al-burhān fÄ« ithbāt ḥaqÄ«qat al-mÄ«zān.
  • Lafẓ al-muwaá¹­á¹­aʼ fÄ« bayān al-á¹£alāh al-wusṭá.
  • DafÊ» al-Shubhah.
  • Qalāʼid al-marjān fÄ« al-nāsikh wa-al-mansÅ«kh min al-Qurʼān.

Personal life

He was married and had two sons, Yahya and Ahmad.

Death

Mar'i al-Karmi died in Cairo in 1624, and was buried there.

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