Mar'i al-Karmi explained

Religion:	Islam
Honorific Prefix:	Shaykh al-Islām
Mar'i al-Karmi
Native Name:	مرعي الكرمي
Native Name Lang:	ar
Birth Name:	Mar'i Yusuf Abi Bakr al-Karmi Arabic: مرعي يوسف أبي بكر الكرمي
Birth Date:	1580
Birth Place:	Tulkarm
Death Place:	Cairo
Resting Place:	Tulkarm, Jerusalem, Cairo
Nationality:	Ottoman Empire
Ethnicity:	Arab
Era:	16th century 17th century
Region:	Arab world
Maddhab:	Hanbali
Occupation:	Scholar of Islam
Denomination:	Sunni
Creed:	Athari
Main Interests:	Fiqh, Tafsir, Aqeedah
Notable Works:	Dalīl al-ṭālib li-nayl al-maṭālib (in Arabic Wikipedia)
Influences:	Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Mansur al-Buhuti
Education:	Al-Azhar

Marʻī ibn Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr Aḥmad al-Karmī (ar|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.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.

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.^[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. 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.

Death

Mar'i al-Karmi died in Cairo in 1624,^[13] and was buried there.

External links

• Mar'i al-Karmi on Virtual International Authority File

Notes and References

1. Web site: مرعي الكرمي. 12 January 2021. Dorar. Arabic. 12 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210112194956/https://dorar.net/hadith/mhd/1033. live.
2. Web site: Marʿī ibn Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr al-Karmī, 1580‒1623. 19 January 2003. 12 January 2021. Library of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies. English. 12 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210112144538/https://alkindi.ideo-cairo.org/agent/11940. live.
3. Web site: مرعي بن يوسف بن أبي بكر الكرمي. 28 October 2015. 12 January 2021. Palestinian Encyclopedia. Arabic. 12 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210112185158/https://www.palestinapedia.net/%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B9%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D9%86-%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%81-%D8%A8%D9%86-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D9%83%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%8A-1033%D9%87%D9%80-1623%D9%85/. usurped.
4. Web site: العلامة الشيخ مرعي الكرمي. 12 January 2021. tasawof. Arabic. 12 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210112202031/http://www.tasawof.com/author/53. live.
5. Web site: Farid al-Salim, Landed Property and Elite Conflict in Ottoman Tulkarm, P75. 12 January 2021. Institute for Palestine Studies. English. 22 July 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200722201411/https://oldwebsite.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/47-_Landed_Proerty_2.pdf. live.
6. Book: Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Scripta Hierosolymitana: Publications of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 1954. 35. Magnes Press. 283.
7. Book: Yusuf, al-Karmi . Farāʾid Fawāʾid al-Fikr fī al-Imām al-Mahdī al-Muntaẓar . Darul Kutub al-Islamiyya . 2003 . 9644650603.
8. Web site: Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Dalīl aṭ-ṭālib li-nail al-maṭālib. 12 January 2021. Virtual International Authority File. English.
9. Web site: Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Taḥqīq al-burhān fī ithbāt ḥaqīqat al-mīzān. 12 January 2021. Virtual International Authority File. English.
10. Web site: Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Lafẓ al-muwaṭṭaʼ fī bayān al-ṣalāh al-wusṭá. 12 January 2021. Virtual International Authority File. English.
11. Web site: Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Dafʻ al-Shubhah. 12 January 2021. Virtual International Authority File. English.
12. Web site: Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Qalāʼid al-marjān fī al-nāsikh wa-al-mansūkh min al-Qurʼān. 12 January 2021. Virtual International Authority File. English.
13. Web site: مَرْعي الكَرْمي. 12 January 2021. المحتوى الإسلامي. Arabic. 12 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210112201720/https://islamic-content.com/person/12004. live.