Mar'i al-Karmi

{{Infobox religious biography

| religion = Islam

| honorific_prefix = Shaykh al-Islām

| name = Mar'i al-Karmi

| native_name = مرعي الكرمي

| native_name_lang = ar

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| birth_name = Mar'i Yusuf Abi Bakr al-Karmi
{{lang|ar|مرعي يوسف أبي بكر الكرمي}}

| birth_date = 1580

| birth_place = Tulkarm

| death_date = {{death date and age|1624|1580|df=y}}

| death_place = Cairo

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| resting_place = Tulkarm, Jerusalem, Cairo

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| nationality = Ottoman Empire

| ethnicity = Arab

| era = 16th century
17th century

| region = Arab world

| Maddhab = Hanbali

| occupation = Scholar of Islam

| denomination = Sunni

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| creed = Athari

| main_interests = Fiqh, Tafsir, Aqeedah

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| notable_works = Dalīl al-ṭālib li-nayl al-maṭālib (in Arabic Wikipedia)

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| influences = Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Mansur al-Buhuti

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| education = Al-Azhar

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Marʻī ibn Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr Aḥmad al-Karmī ({{langx|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.{{Cite web

|title=مرعي الكرمي

|url=https://dorar.net/hadith/mhd/1033

|access-date=12 January 2021

|website=Dorar

|language=Arabic

|archive-date=12 January 2021

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112194956/https://dorar.net/hadith/mhd/1033

|url-status=live}} 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.{{Cite web

|title= Marʿī ibn Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr al-Karmī, 1580‒1623

|url=https://alkindi.ideo-cairo.org/agent/11940

|date= 19 January 2003

|access-date=12 January 2021

|website=Library of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies

|language=English

|archive-date=12 January 2021

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112144538/https://alkindi.ideo-cairo.org/agent/11940

|url-status=live}} There are differences among Muslim scholars about his year of birth. Karmi grew up in Tulkarm,{{Cite web

|title=مرعي بن يوسف بن أبي بكر الكرمي

|url=https://www.palestinapedia.net/مرعي-بن-يوسف-بن-أبي-بكر-الكرمي-1033هـ-1623م/

|date= 28 October 2015

|access-date=12 January 2021

|website=Palestinian Encyclopedia

|language=Arabic

|archive-date=12 January 2021

|archive-url=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/

|url-status=usurped}} and he completed his education from Tulkarm,{{Cite web

|title=العلامة الشيخ مرعي الكرمي

|url=http://www.tasawof.com/author/53

|access-date=12 January 2021

|website=tasawof

|language=Arabic

|archive-date=12 January 2021

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112202031/http://www.tasawof.com/author/53

|url-status=live}} 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.{{Cite web

|title=Farid al-Salim, Landed Property and Elite Conflict in Ottoman Tulkarm, P75

|url=https://oldwebsite.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/47-_Landed_Proerty_2.pdf

|access-date=12 January 2021

|website=Institute for Palestine Studies

|language=English

|archive-date=22 July 2020

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722201411/https://oldwebsite.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/47-_Landed_Proerty_2.pdf

|url-status=live}}

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).{{cite book|author=Hebrew University of Jerusalem|title=Scripta Hierosolymitana: Publications of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DToTAQAAMAAJ|date=1954|volume=35|publisher=Magnes Press|page=283}}
Farāʾid Fawāʾid al-Fikr fī al-Imām al-Mahdī al-Muntaẓar (Unique Benefits of Contemplation on the Awaited Imam Mahdi){{Cite book |last=Yusuf |first=al-Karmi |url=https://archive.org/details/FaraedeFawaaedolFekrFiMahdi/page/n3/mode/2up |title=Farāʾid Fawāʾid al-Fikr fī al-Imām al-Mahdī al-Muntaẓar |publisher=Darul Kutub al-Islamiyya |year=2003 |isbn=9644650603}}
Dalīl al-ṭālib li-nayl al-maṭālib.{{Cite web

|title=Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Dalīl aṭ-ṭālib li-nail al-maṭālib

|url=https://viaf.org/viaf/174643857/#Karmi%CC%84,_Mar%CA%BBi%CC%84_ibn_Yu%CC%84suf,_-1623_or_1624._124&#_Dali%CC%84l_al-t%CC%A3a%CC%84lib_li-nayl_al-mat%CC%A3a%CC%84lib

|access-date=12 January 2021

|website=Virtual International Authority File

|language=English

}}

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.{{Cite web

|title=Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Taḥqīq al-burhān fī ithbāt ḥaqīqat al-mīzān

|url=https://viaf.org/viaf/176666433/#Karmi%CC%84,_Mar%CA%BBi%CC%84_ibn_Yu%CC%84suf,_-1623_or_1624._124&#_Tah%CC%A3qi%CC%84q_al-burha%CC%84n_fi%CC%84_ithba%CC%84t_h%CC%A3aqi%CC%84qat_al-mi%CC%84za%CC%84n

|access-date=12 January 2021

|website=Virtual International Authority File

|language=English

}}

Lafẓ al-muwaṭṭaʼ fī bayān al-ṣalāh al-wusṭá.{{Cite web

|title=Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Lafẓ al-muwaṭṭaʼ fī bayān al-ṣalāh al-wusṭá

|url=https://viaf.org/viaf/185551383/#Karmi%CC%84,_Mar%CA%BBi%CC%84_ibn_Yu%CC%84suf,_-1623_or_1624._124&#_Lafz%CC%A3_al-muwat%CC%A3t%CC%A3a%CA%BC_fi%CC%84_baya%CC%84n_al-s%CC%A3ala%CC%84h_al-wust%CC%A3a%CC%81

|access-date=12 January 2021

|website=Virtual International Authority File

|language=English

}}

Dafʻ al-Shubhah.{{Cite web

|title=Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Dafʻ al-Shubhah

|url=https://viaf.org/viaf/179889946/#Karmi%CC%84,_Mar%CA%BBi%CC%84_ibn_Yu%CC%84suf,_-1623_or_1624._124&#_Daf%CA%BB_al-Shubhah

|access-date=12 January 2021

|website=Virtual International Authority File

|language=English

}}

Qalāʼid al-marjān fī al-nāsikh wa-al-mansūkh min al-Qurʼān.{{Cite web

|title=Karmī, Marʿī Ibn-Yūsuf, Qalāʼid al-marjān fī al-nāsikh wa-al-mansūkh min al-Qurʼān

|url=https://viaf.org/viaf/179186532/#Karmi%CC%84,_Mar%CA%BBi%CC%84_ibn_Yu%CC%84suf,_-1623_or_1624._124&#_Qala%CC%84%CA%BCid_al-marja%CC%84n_fi%CC%84_al-na%CC%84sikh_wa-al-mansu%CC%84kh_min_al-Qur%CA%BCa%CC%84n

|access-date=12 January 2021

|website=Virtual International Authority File

|language=English

}}