Marʻī ibn Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr Aḥmad al-Karmī (; 1580,

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– 1624,

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

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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

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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 is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...

. After that, he went to

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

and joined the

Al-Azhar Al-Azhar Mosque (), known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt in the historic Islamic core of the city. Commissioned as the new capital of the Fatimid Caliphate in 970, it was the first mosque established in a city that ...

. 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'' (; ) is the term for Islamic jurisprudence.Fiqh
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Aqeedah ''Aqidah'' (, , pl. , ) is an Islamic term of Arabic origin that means "creed". It is also called Islamic creed or Islamic theology. ''Aqidah'' goes beyond concise statements of faith and may not be part of an ordinary Muslim's religious ins ...

Tafsir Tafsir ( ; ) refers to an exegesis, or commentary, of the Quran. An author of a ''tafsir'' is a ' (; plural: ). A Quranic ''tafsir'' attempts to provide elucidation, explanation, interpretation, context or commentary for clear understanding ...

, 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 cosmos. The term ''cosmology'' was first used in English in 1656 in Thomas Blount's ''Glossographia'', with the meaning of "a speaking of the wo ...

and

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

(the affairs of the

Last Judgment The Last Judgment is a concept found across the Abrahamic religions and the '' Frashokereti'' of Zoroastrianism. Christianity considers the Second Coming of Jesus Christ to entail the final judgment by God of all people who have ever lived, res ...

and the

Afterlife The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's Stream of consciousness (psychology), stream of consciousness or Personal identity, identity continues to exist after the death of their ...

). * ''Farāʾid Fawāʾid al-Fikr fī al-Imām al-Mahdī al-Muntaẓar (''Unique Benefits of Contemplation on the Awaited Imam Mahdi) *''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