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). Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language Transliteration is the practice of Transcribing a Word or text written in one Writing system into another writing system or system of rules for such practice The araB gene Promoter is a bacterial promoter activated by e L-arabinose binding A geographer is a Scientist whose area of study is Geography, the study of Earth 's physical environment and Human habitat
Biography
Al-Muqaddasi was born in Jerusalem in 945/946 AD, and published his masterwork forty years later after extensive travels. Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, he-Latn Yerushaláyim; Arabic: ar القُدس, ar-Latn al-Quds) is the 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. Etymology The Hebrew name given in Scripture for the building is Beit HaMikdash or "The Holy House" and only the Temple in Jerusalem is referred to by this name
Resources
- Al-Muqaddasi
- Al-Muqaddasi: An Encyclopaedic Scholar
- Zakariyeh Mohammed: Maqdisi: An 11th Century Palestinian Consciousness Double Edition 22 & 23, 2005, Jerusalem Quarterly
See also
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