Mar'i al-Karmi
Mar'i al-Karmi  | |
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مرعي الكرمي  | |
| 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 | |
Influenced by  | |
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.
Life
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]
Death
Mar'i al-Karmi died in Cairo in 1624,[13] and was buried there.[5]
References
- ^ a b "Marʿī ibn Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr al-Karmī, 1580‒1623". Library of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies. 19 January 2003. Archived from the original on 12 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
 - ^ "مرعي الكرمي". Dorar (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 12 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
 - ^ a b c "مرعي بن يوسف بن أبي بكر الكرمي". Palestinian Encyclopedia (in Arabic). 28 October 2015. Archived from the original on 12 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
 - ^ "العلامة الشيخ مرعي الكرمي". tasawof (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 12 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
 - ^ a b c d e f "Farid al-Salim, Landed Property and Elite Conflict in Ottoman Tulkarm, P75" (PDF). Institute for Palestine Studies. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 July 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
 - ^ Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1954). Scripta Hierosolymitana: Publications of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Vol. 35. Magnes Press. p. 283.
 - ^ Yusuf, al-Karmi (2003). Farāʾid Fawāʾid al-Fikr fī al-Imām al-Mahdī al-Muntaẓar. Darul Kutub al-Islamiyya. ISBN 9644650603.
 - ^ "Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Dalīl aṭ-ṭālib li-nail al-maṭālib". Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
 - ^ "Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Taḥqīq al-burhān fī ithbāt ḥaqīqat al-mīzān". Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
 - ^ "Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Lafẓ al-muwaṭṭaʼ fī bayān al-ṣalāh al-wusṭá". Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
 - ^ "Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Dafʻ al-Shubhah". Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
 - ^ "Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Qalāʼid al-marjān fī al-nāsikh wa-al-mansūkh min al-Qurʼān". Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
 - ^ "مَرْعي الكَرْمي". المحتوى الإسلامي (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 12 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2021.