Mar'i al-Karmi

Mar'i al-Karmi studied at Al-Azhar University. Abd al-Baqi al-Hanbali and Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Karmi are recorded as having studied under Mar'i al-Karmi. The recorded working language is Arabic. The field of work recorded is fiqh, tafsir and science of hadith. Residence is recorded at Tulkarm. Works named in the authority record are Dalīl al-ṭālib li-nayl al-maṭālib, Ghāyat al-muntaha fi al-jam' bayna al-iqnaʻ wa-al-muntaha and Qalāʼid al-marjān.

• Religion — Islam • Honorific Prefix — Shaykh al-Islām • Name — Mar'i al-Karmi • Native Name — مرعي الكرمي • Birth Name — Mar'i Yusuf Abi Bakr al-Karmi مرعي يوسف أبي بكر الكرمي • Born — 1580 • Birthplace — Tulkarm • Died — 1624 • Place of death — Cairo • Resting Place — Tulkarm, Jerusalem, Cairo • Era — 16th century 17th century • Region — Arab world • Jurisprudence — 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, Uthman ibn Sa'id al-Darimi, Ibn Taymiyya, Mansur al-Buhuti • Education — Al-Azhar

Mar'i al-Karmi was born in Tulkarm in Palestine on April 1580 in the sixteenth century. There are differences among Muslim scholars about his year of birth. Karmi grew up in Tulkarm, and he completed his education from Tulkarm, 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.

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). • 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.

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

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

Mar'i al-Karmi was recorded at birth as مرعي يوسف أبي بكر أحمد أبي بكر يوسف أحمد الكرمي. The authorities additionally record the headings Mar'i Karmi and Marʻī ibn Yūsuf Karmī. His recorded language was Arabic. His recorded confession was Islam. Other recorded relations include Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Karmi, Yusuf ibn Yahya al-Karmi and Mustafa ibn Yusuf al-Karmi.

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