Al-Muqaddasi

Arab geographer (c. 945/946-991) · Lived 945 to 1000 · aged 55

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Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr, commonly known by the nisba al-Maqdisi or al-Muqaddasī, meaning Jerusalemite, was a medieval Arab geographer, author of The Best Divisions in the Knowledge of the Regions and Description of Syria.

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Al-Maqdisi was from Jerusalem (Bayt al-Maqdis in Arabic), from which he received his name. He was particularly fond of the city and described it at length in his geographic work.

The regions of Islam in the tenth century, based on Al-Maqdisi's work

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Lived 945 to 1000 · aged 55

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