Mar'i al-Karmi
Marʻī ibn Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr Aḥmad al-Karmī, often referred as Marʻī ibn Yūsuf al-Karmī, was a Muslim scholar and one of the most famous Hanbali scholars in the Arab world. 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. 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.
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, a treatise on cosmology and eschatology.Farāʾid Fawāʾid al-Fikr fī al-Imām al-Mahdī al-Muntaẓar