Mala Abdul Karim Mudarris or Maulana Sheikh Abdul Karim Mudarris (1902 — 2005) (, ), also known as Nami, was a Kurdish Faqih,

Mufti A mufti (; , ) is an Islamic jurist qualified to issue a nonbinding opinion ('' fatwa'') on a point of Islamic law (''sharia''). The act of issuing fatwas is called ''iftāʾ''. Muftis and their ''fatāwa'' have played an important role thro ...

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, and Quran interpreter in addition to being a poet, writer, as well as a translator. He was known by the epithet Mudarris (English: the teacher) because he taught

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for more than 80 years. Al-Mudarris left a legacy of approximately 150 publications (in Arabic, Kurdish, and Persian languages) on a multitude of subjects (Islamic

fiqh ''Fiqh'' (; ) is the term for Islamic jurisprudence.Fiqh
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shariah Sharia, Sharī'ah, Shari'a, or Shariah () is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Qur'an and hadith. In Islamic terminology ''sharīʿah'' refers to immutable, intan ...

, Quran interpretation,

hadith studies Hadith studies is the academic study of hadith, a literature typically thought in Islamic religion to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval of the Muhammad as transmitted through chains of narrators. A major area of inter ...

, history, poetry,

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, etc.) The majority of this work got published. His book, "Two Sentences" (Kurdish: دوو رشته), which was published in 1982, is a dictionary which defines Arabic words in poems in Kurdish. He was the first person to translate the

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into Kurdish. The Kurdistan governmental region has decided to open a place for his works.

Early life

He was born in a small village near

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. His father passed away when he was a small child. He started studying in Marivan and studying in Arabic grammar and studied other sciences under the guidance of haji Mulla Aziz who was the imam of a mosque in Sulaimaniyah. When the First World War began in 1914 he moved to another village until he eventually, with some students, settled in a mosque in Sulaimaniyah. Thereafter he moved to the mosque of Shaikh Husam al-Din, where he studied various books on Arabic grammar, logic, the art of debate, argumentation and Fiqh. He then continued his studies in Halabje, Suleimanieh and

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. In 1924, he was appointed as a teacher in Halabja district, then he moved to Biyara to teach the Islamic Sciences where he remained for about 24 years and served as a Khatib for approximately 18 years. In 1951, he moved back to Sulaimani where he taught at the Mosque of Haji Han for about three years. In 1954 he moved to Kirkuk where he taught at the Haji Jamil al-Ialibani Centre. In 1960 Sheikh Mudarris moved to Baghdad where he became Imam and khatib and a teacher at the Sheikh ‘Abdul Qadiri Gaylani Mosque. Sheikh Mudarris retired from official duties in 1973, but continued teaching. After the death of Sheikh Najm al-Din al-Wa’iz, he was appointed as the head of the ‘Ulama’ League of Iraq. Many also regarded him as the Mufti of Baghdad. Sheikh Mudarris died on 30 August 2005 and was buried in the Gaylani tomb in Baghdad.

Some of his Kurdish Works

*Editing and expounding of

Mahwi Mahwi ( ''Mehwî''; full name: مەلا موحەمەد کوڕی عوسمان بەڵخی ''Mala Mohammed Osman Ballkhi'') (1830-1906) was one of the most prominent classical Kurdish poets and sufis from Kurdistan of Iraq. He studied in Sablakh ...

's poems *Editing and expounding of

Nalî Nalî (, 1797/1800–1855/56), also known as Mela Khidrî Ehmedî Šaweysî Mikâʾîlî, was a prominent Kurdish poet, scholar, and linguist from the Sulaymaniyah region in present-day Kurdistan Region, Iraq. He is regarded as one of the most in ...

's poems *Editing and expounding of

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's poems *Editing and expounding of Faqe Qader Hamawand's poems *Editing and expounding of Aqidey Marzie from

*The

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in Kurdish *Nami

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, his Tafsir of Qur'an in Kurdish

Some of his Arabic Works

*Nurol'iman *Nurol'Islam *Our Scientists working for science and religion *The articles of

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*Jawaher Alfatawa

Persian works

*Translation of

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's Articles from Persian to Kurdish *The Shamshirkari article in refusing who is not believe in

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References

The Kurdish Language from Oral Tradition to Written Languageclassic and modern Kurdish poetry
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mudarris, Abdul Karim 1901 births 2005 deaths Kurdish literature 20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam Quranic exegesis scholars Kurdish-language Iraqi poets 20th-century Iraqi poets Grand Muftis of Iraq

Early life

Some of his Kurdish Works

Some of his Arabic Works

Persian works

See also

References