Mala Abdul Karim Mudarris or Maulana Sheikh Abdul Karim Mudarris (1902 — 2005) (Kurdish: Mele Ebdulkerîmê Muderîs, Arabic: عبد الكريم المدرس), also known as Nami, was a Kurdish Faqih, Mufti of Iraq, and Quran interpreter in addition to being a poet, writer, as well as a translator.

[8] Al-Mudarris left a legacy of approximately 150 publications[9] (in Arabic, Kurdish, and Persian languages) on a multitude of subjects (Islamic fiqh, shariah, Quran interpretation, hadith studies, history, poetry, rhetoric, etc.)

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.

After the death of Sheikh Najm al-Din al-Wa’iz, he was appointed as the head of the ‘Ulama’ League of Iraq.