Al-Maqdisi, the Glossary

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1. 89 relations: Abbasid Caliphate, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, Acre, Israel, Afghanistan, Ahmad ibn Tulun, Al Ain, Al Buraimi Governorate, Al-Ahsa Oasis, Al-Andalus, Al-Aqsa, Al-Aqsa Mosque, Al-Jahiz, Al-Jazira (caliphal province), Aleppo, Amman, André Miquel, Aqaba, Arabian Peninsula, Arabic grammar, Arabic literature, Arabs, Arculf, Arminiya, Arran (Caucasus), Azerbaijan (Iran), Bayt Jibrin, Bazaar, Beit She'an, Beyarjomand, Bilad al-Sham, Caesarea Maritima, Common Era, Date palm, Daylam, Dibba, Dome of the Rock, Eastern Arabia, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia, Egypt in the Middle Ages, Fars province, Fatimid Caliphate, Fiqh, Geographer, Geography and cartography in the medieval Islamic world, Greater Khorasan, Guy Le Strange, Hadith, Hajar Mountains, Hajj, Ibn al-Faqih, ... Expand index (39 more) »

2. 10th-century geographers
3. 940s births
4. 991 deaths
5. Balkhi school
6. Geography of Palestine (region)
7. Medieval Syrian geographers
8. Medieval history of Palestine
9. Palestinian scholars
10. Travel writers of the medieval Islamic world

Abbasid Caliphate

The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Abu Zayd al-Balkhi

Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Balkhi (ابو زید احمد بن سهل بلخی) was a Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist and scientist. Al-Maqdisi and Abu Zayd al-Balkhi are Balkhi school.

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Acre, Israel

Acre, known locally as Akko (עַכּוֹ) and Akka (عكّا), is a city in the coastal plain region of the Northern District of Israel.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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Ahmad ibn Tulun

Ahmad ibn Tulun (translit; c. 20 September 835 – 10 May 884) was the founder of the Tulunid dynasty that ruled Egypt and Syria between 868 and 905.

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Al Ain

Al Ain (ٱلْعَيْن,, literally, the spring) is a city in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and the seat of the administrative division of the Al Ain Region The city is bordered to the east by the Omani town of Al-Buraimi.

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Al Buraimi Governorate

Al Buraimi Governorate (Muḥāfaẓat Al-Buraimī) is one of the 11 governorates of Oman.

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Al-Ahsa Oasis

Al-Ahsa Oasis (الْأَحْسَاء, al-ʾAhsā), also known as al-Ḥasāʾ (الْحَسَاء) or Hajar (هَجَر), is an oasis and historical region in eastern Saudi Arabia.

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Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Al-Aqsa

Al-Aqsa (translit) or al-Masjid al-Aqṣā (المسجد الأقصى) and also is the compound of Islamic religious buildings that sit atop the Temple Mount, also known as the Haram al-Sharif, in the Old City of Jerusalem, including the Dome of the Rock, many mosques and prayer halls, madrasas, zawiyas, khalwas and other domes and religious structures, as well as the four encircling minarets.

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Al-Aqsa Mosque

The Aqsa Mosque (congregational mosque of Al-Aqsa), also known as the Qibli Mosque or Qibli Chapel (المصلى القبلي), and also is the main congregational mosque or prayer hall in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem.

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Al-Jahiz

Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr al-Kinani al-Basri (translit), commonly known as al-Jahiz (lit), was an Arabic polymath and author of works of literature (including theory and criticism), theology, zoology, philosophy, grammar, dialectics, rhetoric, philology, linguistics, and politico-religious polemics.

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Al-Jazira (caliphal province)

Al-Jazira (الجزيرة), also known as Jazirat Aqur or Iqlim Aqur, was a province of the Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates, spanning at minimum most of Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira proper), divided between the districts of Diyar Bakr, Diyar Rabi'a and Diyar Mudar, and at times including Mosul, Arminiya and Adharbayjan as sub-provinces.

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Aleppo

Aleppo (ﺣَﻠَﺐ, ALA-LC) is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous governorate of Syria.

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Amman

Amman (ʿAmmān) is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center.

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André Miquel

André Miquel (26 September 1929 – 27 December 2022) was a French Arabist and historian, specialist of Arabic literature and Arabic language.

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Aqaba

Aqaba (al-ʿAqaba) is the only coastal city in Jordan and the largest and most populous city on the Gulf of Aqaba.

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Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.

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Arabic grammar

Arabic grammar (النَّحْوُ العَرَبِيُّ) is the grammar of the Arabic language.

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Arabic literature

Arabic literature (الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language.

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Arabs

The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.

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Arculf

Arculf was a Frankish churchman who toured the Holy Land around 670. Al-Maqdisi and Arculf are holy Land travellers.

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Arminiya

Arminiya, also known as the Ostikanate of Arminiya (Հայաստանի Օստիկանություն, Hayastani ostikanut'yun) or the Emirate of Armenia (إمارة أرمينية, imārat armīniya), was a political and geographic designation given by the Muslim Arabs to the lands of Greater Armenia, Caucasian Iberia, and Caucasian Albania, following their conquest of these regions in the 7th century.

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Arran (Caucasus)

Arran (Middle Persian form; Persian: اران or اردان), also known as Aran or Ardan, was a geographical name used in ancient and medieval times to signify a historically-Iranian region which lay within the triangle of land, lowland in the east and mountainous in the west, formed by the junction of the Kura and Aras rivers, including the highland and lowland Karabakh, Mil plain and parts of the Mughan plain.

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Azerbaijan (Iran)

Azerbaijan or Azarbaijan (italic), also known as Iranian Azerbaijan, is a historical region in northwestern Iran that borders Iraq and Turkey to the west, and the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Armenia, and the Republic of Azerbaijan proper to the north.

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Bayt Jibrin

Bayt Jibrin or Beit Jibrin (بيت جبرين; translit), known between 200-400 CE as Eleutheropolis (Greek, Ἐλευθερόπολις, "Free City"; إليوثيروبوليس), was a historical town, located in central Israel near the 1949 ceasefire line, northwest of the city of Hebron.The town had a total land area of 56,185 dunams or, of which were built-up while the rest remained farmland.

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Bazaar

A bazaar or souk is a marketplace consisting of multiple small stalls or shops, especially in the Middle East, the Balkans, North Africa and South Asia.

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Beit She'an

Beit She'an (בֵּית שְׁאָן), also Beth-shean, formerly Beisan (بيسان), is a town in the Northern District of Israel.

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Beyarjomand

Beyarjomand (بيارجمند) is a city in, and the capital of, Beyarjomand District of Shahrud County, Semnan province, Iran.

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Bilad al-Sham

Bilad al-Sham (Bilād al-Shām), often referred to as Islamic Syria or simply Syria in English-language sources, was a province of the Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid caliphates. Al-Maqdisi and Bilad al-Sham are medieval history of Palestine.

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Caesarea Maritima

Caesarea (Kaisáreia; Qēsaryah; Qaysāriyyah), also Caesarea Maritima, Caesarea Palaestinae or Caesarea Stratonis, was an ancient and medieval port city on the coast of the Eastern Mediterranean, and later a small fishing village.

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Common Era

Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.

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Date palm

Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the date palm, is a flowering-plant species in the palm family, Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit called dates.

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Daylam

Daylam (دیلم), also known in the plural form Daylaman (دیلمان) (and variants such as Dailam, Deylam, and Deilam), was the name of a mountainous region of inland Gilan, Iran.

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Dibba

Dibbā (دِبَّا) is a coastal area at the northern tip of the eastern Arabian peninsula on the Gulf of Oman.

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Dome of the Rock

The Dome of the Rock (Qubbat aṣ-Ṣaḵra) is an Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem.

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Eastern Arabia

Eastern Arabia, is a region stretched from Basra to Khasab along the Persian Gulf coast and included parts of modern-day Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia (Eastern Province), and the United Arab Emirates.

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Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia

The Eastern Province (المنطقة الشرقية), also known as the Eastern Region, is the easternmost of the 13 provinces of Saudi Arabia.

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Egypt in the Middle Ages

Following the Islamic conquest in 641-642, Lower Egypt was ruled at first by governors acting in the name of the Rashidun Caliphs and then the Umayyad Caliphs in Damascus, but in 750 the Umayyads were overthrown.

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Fars province

Fars province (استان فارس) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.

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Fatimid Caliphate

The Fatimid Caliphate or Fatimid Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Fāṭimiyya) was a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries CE under the rule of the Fatimids, an Isma'ili Shia dynasty.

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Fiqh

Fiqh (فقه) is Islamic jurisprudence.

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Geographer

A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts.

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Geography and cartography in the medieval Islamic world

Medieval Islamic geography and cartography refer to the study of geography and cartography in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age (variously dated between the 8th century and 16th century).

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Greater Khorasan

Greater KhorāsānDabeersiaghi, Commentary on Safarnâma-e Nâsir Khusraw, 6th Ed.

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Guy Le Strange

Guy Le Strange (24 July 1854 – 24 December 1933) was a British Orientalist noted especially for his work in the field of the historical geography of the pre-modern Middle Eastern and Eastern Islamic lands, and his editing of Persian geographical texts.

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Hadith

Hadith (translit) or Athar (أثر) is a form of Islamic oral tradition containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the prophet Muhammad.

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Hajar Mountains

The Hajar Mountains (Jibāl al-Ḥajar, The Rocky Mountains or The Stone Mountains) are one of the highest mountain ranges in the Arabian Peninsula, shared between northern Oman and eastern United Arab Emirates.

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Hajj

Hajj (translit; also spelled Hadj, Haj or Haji) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims.

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Ibn al-Faqih

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadani (احمد بن محمد ابن فقيه همدانی) (fl. 902) was a 10th-century Persian historian and geographer, famous for his Mukhtasar Kitab al-Buldan ("Concise Book of Lands") written in Arabic. Al-Maqdisi and ibn al-Faqih are 10th-century geographers.

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Ibn Hawqal

Muḥammad Abū’l-Qāsim Ibn Ḥawqal (محمد أبو القاسمبن حوقل), also known as Abū al-Qāsim b. ʻAlī Ibn Ḥawqal al-Naṣībī, born in Nisibis, Upper Mesopotamia; was a 10th-century Arab Muslim writer, geographer, and chronicler who travelled from AD 943 to 969. Al-Maqdisi and Ibn Hawqal are 10th-century Arab people, 10th-century geographers, Balkhi school and travel writers of the medieval Islamic world.

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Ibn Khallikan

Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Ibrāhīm bin Abū Bakr ibn Khallikān (أحمد بن محمد بن إبراهيمبن أبي بكر ابن خلكان; 22 September 1211 – 30 October 1282), better known as Ibn Khallikān, was a renowned Islamic historian who compiled the celebrated biographical encyclopedia of Muslim scholars and important men in Muslim history, Deaths of Eminent Men and the Sons of the Epoch ('Wafayāt al-Aʿyān wa-Anbāʾ Abnāʾ az-Zamān').

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Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.

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Islamic Golden Age

The Islamic Golden Age was a period of scientific, economic and cultural flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century.

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Istakhri

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Farisi al-Istakhri (آبو إسحاق إبراهيمبن محمد الفارسي الإصطخري) (also Estakhri, استخری, i.e. from the Iranian city of Istakhr, b. - d. 346 AH/AD 957) was a 10th-century travel author and Islamic geographer who wrote valuable accounts in Arabic of the many Muslim territories he visited during the Abbasid era of the Islamic Golden Age. Al-Maqdisi and Istakhri are Balkhi school and travel writers of the medieval Islamic world.

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Jebel Hafeet

Jabal Hafeet (Jabal Ḥafīt, "Mount Hafeet"; variously transcribed Jabel or Jebal and Hafit – literally "empty mountain") is a mountain in the region of Tawam, on the border of the United Arab Emirates and Oman, which may be considered an outlier of the Hajar Mountains in Eastern Arabia.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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Jibal

Jibāl (جبال), also al-Jabal (الجبل), was the name given by the Arabs to a region and province located in western Iran, under the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates.

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Jund al-Urdunn

Jund al-Urdunn (جُـنْـد الْأُرْدُنّ, translation: "The military district of Jordan") was one of the five districts of Bilad al-Sham (Islamic Syria) during the early Islamic period. Al-Maqdisi and Jund al-Urdunn are medieval history of Palestine.

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Jund Filastin

Jund Filasṭīn (جُنْد فِلَسْطِيْن, "the military district of Palestine") was one of the military districts of the Umayyad and Abbasid province of Bilad al-Sham (Levant), organized soon after the Muslim conquest of the Levant in the 630s. Al-Maqdisi and Jund Filastin are medieval history of Palestine.

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Kerman

Kerman (كرمان) is a city in the Central District of Kerman County, Kerman province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district.

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Khuzestan province

Khuzestan Province (استان خوزستان) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.

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Levant

The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.

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List of pre-modern Arab scientists and scholars

Arab scientists and scholars from the Muslim World, including Al-Andalus (Spain), who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age, include the following.

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Maghreb

The Maghreb (lit), also known as the Arab Maghreb (اَلْمَغْرِبُ الْعَرَبِيُّ) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of the Arab world.

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Mecca

Mecca (officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam.

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Musandam Peninsula

The Musandam Peninsula (Jazīrat Musandam / Raʾs Musandam), locally known as Ruus Al Jibal (Ruʾūs al-Jibāl Capes of the Mountains), is a peninsula that forms the northeastern point of the Arabian Peninsula.

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Muslim conquest of the Levant

The Muslim conquest of the Levant (Fatḥ al-šām; lit. "Conquest of Syria"), or Arab conquest of Syria, was a 634–638 CE invasion of Byzantine Syria by the Rashidun Caliphate.

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Nasir Khusraw

Nasir Khusraw (ناصرخسرو; 1004 – between 1072–1088) was an Isma'ili poet, philosopher, traveler, and missionary for the Isma'ili Fatimid Caliphate. Al-Maqdisi and Nasir Khusraw are geography of Palestine (region), holy Land travellers and travel writers of the medieval Islamic world.

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Nisba (onomastics)

In Arabic names, a nisba (نسبة, "attribution"), also rendered as or, is an adjective surname indicating the person's place of origin, ancestral tribe, or ancestry, used at the end of the name and occasionally ending in the suffix -iyy for males and -iyyah for females.

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Oman

Oman, officially the Sultanate of Oman, is a country in West Asia.

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Palestine (region)

The region of Palestine, also known as Historic Palestine, is a geographical area in West Asia.

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Palestine Exploration Fund

The Palestine Exploration Fund is a British society based in London.

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Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society

The Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society (PPTS) was a text publication society based in London, which specialised in publishing editions and translations of medieval texts relevant to the history of pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Al-Maqdisi and Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society are holy Land travellers.

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Palestinians

Palestinians (al-Filasṭīniyyūn) or Palestinian people (label), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs (label), are an Arab ethnonational group native to Palestine.

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Quraysh

The Quraysh (قُرَيْشٌ) was an Arab tribe that inhabited and controlled Mecca and its Kaaba.

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Ramla

Ramla or Ramle (רַמְלָה, Ramlā; الرملة, ar-Ramleh) is a city in the Central District of Israel.

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Ras Al Khaimah

Ras Al Khaimah (رَأْس ٱلْخَيْمَة), often referred to its initials RAK and historically known as Julfar, is the largest city and capital of the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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Reaktion Books

Reaktion Books is an independent book publisher based in Islington, London, England.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.

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Shiraz

Shiraz (شیراز) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars and Persis.

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Sindh

Sindh (سِنْدھ,; abbr. SD, historically romanized as Sind) is a province of Pakistan.

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Sistan

Sistān (سیستان), also known as Sakastān (سَكاستان "the land of the Saka") and Sijistan, is a historical region in present-day south-eastern Iran, south-western Afghanistan and extending across the borders of south-western Pakistan.

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Tawam (region)

Tawam (Tawām), also Tuwwam, or Tu'am, is a historical oasis region in Eastern Arabia that stretched from, or was located between, the Western Hajar Mountains to the Persian Gulf coast, nowadays forming parts of the United Arab Emirates and western Oman.

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Tiberias

Tiberias (טְבֶרְיָה,; Ṭabariyyā) is an Israeli city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee.

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Transoxiana

Transoxiana or Transoxania is the Latin name for the region and civilization located in lower Central Asia roughly corresponding to modern-day eastern Uzbekistan, western Tajikistan, parts of southern Kazakhstan, parts of Turkmenistan and southern Kyrgyzstan.

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United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.

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Zedekiah's Cave

Zedekiah's Cave, also known as Solomon's Quarries, is a underground meleke limestone quarry under the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem that runs the length of five city blocks.

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Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins

The Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins (English: Journal of the German Society for Exploration of Palestine) is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the cultural history of the Southern Levant.

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See also

10th-century geographers

• Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani
• Ahmad ibn Rustah
• Al-Maqdisi
• Al-Masudi
• Balkhi school
• Ibn Hawqal
• Ibn al-Faqih
• Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad
• Muhammad ibn Yūsuf al-Warrāq
• Ya'qubi

940s births

• Ælfthryth (wife of Edgar)
• 940 births
• 941 births
• 942 births
• 943 births
• 944 births
• 945 births
• 946 births
• 947 births
• 948 births
• 949 births
• Abbo of Fleury
• Abu al-Fath al-Busti
• Abu-Mahmud Khujandi
• Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou
• Al-Baqillani
• Al-Maqdisi
• Al-Sijzi
• Baldwin III, Count of Flanders
• Brian Boru
• Doubravka of Bohemia
• Eadwig
• Edgar, King of England
• Emma of Italy
• Eric the Victorious
• Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians
• Gerberga II, Abbess of Gandersheim
• Gerberga, Queen of Italy
• Godfrey I, Duke of Lower Lorraine
• Henry III, Duke of Bavaria
• Hlodvir Thorfinnsson
• Ibn Furak
• Ibn Juljul
• Leo of Synada
• Leopold I, Margrave of Austria
• Lothair I, Margrave of the Nordmark
• Notker of Liège
• Pope Sylvester II
• Rajaraja I
• Sabuktigin
• Senhorinha of Basto
• Subh of Córdoba
• Sviatoslav I
• Theodora (daughter of Constantine VII)
• Thorgeir Ljosvetningagodi
• Tróndur í Gøtu
• Trdat (architect)
• Vijayanandi

991 deaths

• Abu Muhammad Ubaydallah ibn Ahmad ibn Ma'ruf
• Abu Uday el-Masry bin el-Emam
• Al-Maqdisi
• Aleramo, Marquis of Montferrat
• Ashot-Sahak of Vaspurakan
• Bakjur
• Bardas Skleros
• Byrhtnoth
• Cú Ceanain mac Tadhg
• Emperor En'yū
• Gausfred I
• Gillacommain mac Niall
• Heriward
• Judith of Carinthia
• Meng Xuanzhe
• Muhammad III of Shirvan
• Nakatsukasa
• Otto I, Marquis of Montferrat
• Pan Mei
• Piligrim
• Qian Weijun
• Reginold of Eichstätt
• Sa'd al-Dawla
• Suero Gundemáriz
• Taira no Kanemori
• Theophanu
• Tribuno Memmo
• Ya'qub ibn Killis
• Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu

Balkhi school

• Abu Zayd al-Balkhi
• Al-Maqdisi
• Ibn Hawqal
• Ibn al-Mujawir
• Istakhri

Geography of Palestine (region)

• 1033 Jordan Valley earthquake
• Al-Maqdisi
• Al-Sinnabra
• Aqabah
• Auja al-Hafir
• Bethmaus
• Garis (Galilee)
• Geography of Israel
• Geography of Jordan
• Geography of the State of Palestine
• Ghoraniyeh
• Hebraization of Palestinian place names
• Henry Kendall (urban planner)
• Jamnith
• Jordan Rift Valley
• Jordan River
• Jordan Valley
• Judaean Desert
• Kafr Lam
• Kefar Shihlayim
• Kfar Aziz
• Khirbet Kerak
• List of East Jerusalem locations
• List of beaches in Palestine
• Nasir Khusraw
• Onomasticon (Eusebius)
• Palestine Association
• Palestinian territories
• Pool of Siloam
• Tarichaea
• Tel Yarmuth
• Tell ej-Judeideh
• Transjordan (region)
• Umm er Rus
• Via Maris

Medieval Syrian geographers

• Al-Dimashqi (geographer)
• Al-Maqdisi
• Ibn al-Wardi
• Yaqut al-Hamawi

Medieval history of Palestine

• Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Wasiti
• Al-Maqdisi
• Al-Sharat
• Alqama ibn Mujazziz al-Kinani
• Ayyubid dynasty
• Battle of Ain Jalut
• Battle of Ajnadayn
• Baybars
• Bilad al-Sham
• Jund Filastin
• Jund al-Urdunn
• Kingdom of Jerusalem
• Mamluk Sultanate
• Medieval Jerusalem
• Mongol raids into Palestine
• Plague of Amwas
• Qays–Yaman rivalry
• Raja ibn Haywa
• Rashidun Caliphate
• Sayf al-Din Inal
• Tamim al-Dari
• White Mosque of Ramle

Palestinian scholars

• Al-Maqdisi
• Faisal Darraj
• Issa J. Boullata
• Michael Elias Marmura
• Muhammad Said al-Jamal ar-Rifa'i
• Muhammad al-Khalili
• Mustafa Abu Sway
• Rabab Abdulhadi
• Raja ibn Haywa
• Salman Abu Sitta
• Samir Kassir

Travel writers of the medieval Islamic world

• Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
• Abd al-Razzaq Samarqandi
• Abu Hamid al-Gharnati
• Ahmad ibn Fadlan
• Ahmad ibn Rustah
• Ahmad ibn al-Tayyib al-Sarakhsi
• Al-Maqdisi
• Ghiyath al-Din Naqqash
• Ibn Battuta
• Ibn Hawqal
• Ibn Jubayr
• Ibn Qalaqis
• Ibn al-Mujawir
• Istakhri
• Mohammed al-Abdari al-Hihi
• Muhammad al-Idrisi
• Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi
• Nasir Khusraw
• Ya'qubi
• Yaqut al-Hamawi
• Young Man of Arévalo
• Zheng He

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Maqdisi

Also known as Al-Makdisi, Al-Mukaddasi, Al-Muqaddasi, Al-Muqaddasī, El-Muqadasi, Izz al-Din al-Muqaddasi, Maqdesī, Moqaddasi, Mucaddasi, Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Shams al-Din Al-Muqaddasi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Maqdisi, Muhammed ibn Ahmad al-Maqdisi, Mukaddasi, Muqaddasi, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Maqdisī, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Muqaddasī, Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Abī Bakr al-Bannāʾ al-Shāmī al-Muqaddasī, Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Bannāʾ al-Shāmī al-Maqdisī al-Bashshārī al-Maqdisī.

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