Marʻī ibn Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr Aḥmad al-Karmī ( ar, مرعي بن يوسف بن أبي بكر بن أحمد الكرمي; 1580,

Tulkarm Tulkarm, Tulkarem or Tull Keram ( ar, طولكرم, ''Ṭūlkarm'') is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, located in the Tulkarm Governorate of the State of Palestine. The Israeli city of Netanya is to the west, and the Palestinian cities of N ...

– 1624,

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), often referred as Marʻī ibn Yūsuf al-Karmī, was a Muslim scholar and one of the most famous

Hanbali The Hanbali school ( ar, ٱلْمَذْهَب ٱلْحَنۢبَلِي, al-maḏhab al-ḥanbalī) is one of the four major traditional Sunni schools (''madhahib'') of Islamic jurisprudence. It is named after the Arab scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal ...

scholars in the

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. He was born in

, and died in

. He authored several books and most of them are related to

Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...

Life

Mar'i al-Karmi was born in

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on April 1580 in the sixteenth century. There are differences among

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about his year of birth. Karmi grew up in

, and he completed his education from

, then he studied Islamic sciences in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. After that, he went to

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

and joined the

Al-Azhar Al-Azhar Mosque ( ar, الجامع الأزهر, al-Jāmiʿ al-ʾAzhar, lit=The Resplendent Congregational Mosque, arz, جامع الأزهر, Gāmiʿ el-ʾazhar), known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt in the historic ...

. There, he studied with Shaykh Manṣūr al-Buhūtī. Mar'i al-Karmi became one of the famous scholars of

, 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 ''Fiqh'' (; ar, فقه ) is Islamic jurisprudence. Muhammad-> Companions-> Followers-> Fiqh. The commands and prohibitions chosen by God were revealed through the agency of the Prophet in both the Quran and the Sunnah (words, deeds, and ...

Aqeedah ''Aqidah'' ( (), plural ''ʿaqāʾid'', also rendered ''ʿaqīda'', ''aqeeda'', etc.) is an Islamic term of Arabic origin that literally means " creed". It is also called Islamic creed and Islamic theology. ''Aqidah'' go beyond concise stat ...

Tafsir Tafsir ( ar, تفسير, tafsīr ) refers to exegesis, usually of the Quran. An author of a ''tafsir'' is a ' ( ar, مُفسّر; plural: ar, مفسّرون, mufassirūn). A Quranic ''tafsir'' attempts to provide elucidation, explanation, in ...

, 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 Cosmology () is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe. The term ''cosmology'' was first used in English in 1656 in Thomas Blount (lexicographer), Thomas Blount's ''Glossographia'', and in 1731 taken up in ...

and

eschatology Eschatology (; ) concerns expectations of the end of the present age, human history, or of the world itself. The end of the world or end times is predicted by several world religions (both Abrahamic and non-Abrahamic), which teach that negati ...

(the affairs of the

Last Judgment The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Reckoning, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Doomsday, Day of Resurrection or The Day of the Lord (; ar, یوم القيامة, translit=Yawm al-Qiyāmah or ar, یوم الدین, translit=Yawm ad-Dīn, ...

and the

Afterlife The afterlife (also referred to as life after death) is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's identity or their stream of consciousness continues to live after the death of their physical body. The surviving ess ...

). *''Dalīl al-ṭālib li-nayl al-maṭālib''. *''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''. *''Lafẓ al-muwaṭṭaʼ fī bayān al-ṣalāh al-wusṭá''. *''Dafʻ al-Shubhah''. *''Qalāʼid al-marjān fī al-nāsikh wa-al-mansūkh min al-Qurʼān''.

Personal life

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

Death

Mar'i al-Karmi died in

in 1624, and was buried there.

References

External links

Mar'i al-Karmi on Virtual International Authority File
{{Authority control 17th-century Muslim theologians Muslim scholars of Islamic jurisprudence Hadith scholars People from Tulkarm Palestinian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam Encyclopedists from the Ottoman Empire Arab Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam 1580 births 1624 deaths Biographical evaluation scholars Hanbalis Al-Azhar University alumni