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 asMarʻī ibn Yūsuf al-Karmī, was a Muslim scholar and one of the most famousHanbali scholars in theArab world.[2] He was born inTulkarm, and died inCairo. He authored several books and most of them are related toIslam.
Mar'i al-Karmi was born inTulkarm inPalestine on April 1580 in the sixteenth century.[1] There are differences amongMuslim scholars about his year of birth. Karmi grew up inTulkarm,[3] and he completed his education fromTulkarm,[4] then he studied Islamic sciences inJerusalem.[3]
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 asFiqh,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 oncosmology andeschatology (the affairs of theLast Judgment and theAfterlife).[6]
Farāʾid Fawāʾid al-Fikr fī al-Imām al-Mahdī al-Muntaẓar (Unique Benefits of Contemplation on the Awaited Imam Mahdi)[7]
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