Shaykh al-Islām
Mar'i al-Karmi
مرعي الكرمي
Personal
Born
Mar'i Yusuf Abi Bakr al-Karmi
مرعي يوسف أبي بكر الكرمي

1580
Tulkarm
Died1624(1624-00-00) (aged 43–44)
Cairo
Resting placeTulkarm, Jerusalem, Cairo[1]
ReligionIslam
NationalityOttoman Empire
Era16th century
17th century
RegionArab world
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanbali
CreedAthari
Main interest(s)Fiqh, Tafsir, Aqeedah
Notable work(s)Dalīl al-ṭālib li-nayl al-maṭālib (in Arabic Wikipedia)
EducationAl-Azhar
OccupationScholar of Islam
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]
  • Dalīl al-ṭālib li-nayl al-maṭālib.[7]
  • 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.[8]
  • Lafẓ al-muwaṭṭaʼ fī bayān al-ṣalāh al-wusṭá.[9]
  • Dafʻ al-Shubhah.[10]
  • Qalāʼid al-marjān fī al-nāsikh wa-al-mansūkh min al-Qurʼān.[11]

Personal life

He was married and had two sons, Yahya and Ahmad.[5]

Death

Mar'i al-Karmi died in Cairo in 1624,[12] and was buried there.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "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.
  2. ↑ "مرعي الكرمي". Dorar (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 12 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 "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.
  4. ↑ "العلامة الشيخ مرعي الكرمي". tasawof (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 12 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "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.
  6. ↑ Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1954). Scripta Hierosolymitana: Publications of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Vol. 35. Magnes Press. p. 283.
  7. ↑ "Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Dalīl aṭ-ṭālib li-nail al-maṭālib". Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  8. ↑ "Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Taḥqīq al-burhān fī ithbāt ḥaqīqat al-mīzān". Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  9. ↑ "Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Lafẓ al-muwaṭṭaʼ fī bayān al-ṣalāh al-wusṭá". Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  10. ↑ "Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Dafʻ al-Shubhah". Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  11. ↑ "Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Qalāʼid al-marjān fī al-nāsikh wa-al-mansūkh min al-Qurʼān". Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  12. ↑ "مَرْعي الكَرْمي". المحتوى الإسلامي (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 12 January 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
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