Al-Muqaddasi

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Muhammad ibn Ahmad Shams al-Din Al-Muqaddasi (Arabic: محمد بن أحمد شمس الدين المقدسي), also transliterated as Al-Maqdisi and el-Mukaddasi, was a notable medieval Arab geographer, author of Ahsan at-Taqasim fi Ma`rifat il-Aqalim (The Best Divisions for Knowledge of the Regions).

[edit] Biography

Al-Muqaddasi was born in Jerusalem in 945/946 AD, and published his masterwork forty years later after extensive travels. His name derives from the Arabic name for Jerusalem, Bayt al-Muqaddas, which is linguistically equivalent to the Hebrew Beit Ha-Mikdash, the Jewish Temple.

[edit] Resources

• Al-Muqaddasi
• Al-Muqaddasi: An Encyclopaedic Scholar
• Zakariyeh Mohammed: Maqdisi: An 11th Century Palestinian Consciousness Double Edition 22 & 23, 2005, Jerusalem Quarterly

[edit] See also

• List of Arab scientists and scholars
• Zedekiah's Cave