Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr, commonly known by the nisba al-Maqdisi or al-Muqaddasī, was a medieval Palestinian Arab geographer...

geographer al-Muqaddasi, 11th-century scholar Nasir Khusraw, 12th-century geographer al-Idrisi and 15th-century Islamic scholar Mujir al-Din, as well...

geographer al-Muqaddasi, 11th-century scholar Nasir Khusraw, 12th-century geographer al-Idrisi and 15th-century Islamic scholar Mujir al-Din, as well as...

the "mosque suspended on columns", as al-Muqaddasi called it. This may have been the congregational mosque of al-Muhtariqa. Abbasid Raqqa had an important...

of Omar ibn al-Khattab who was caliph during the Muslim conquest of Palestine. In 985, during Abbasid rule, Arab geographer al-Muqaddasi wrote that the...

ff.. Al-Mas'udi 1873, p. 122. Al-Ya'qubi 1892, pp. 259, 266. Northedge 2008, p. 183. Al-Muqaddasi 2001, p. 55. Northedge 2008, pp. 183, 242. Al-Ya'qubi...

divisions of the world which are dar al-Islam (lit. 'territory of Islam'), denoting regions where Islamic law prevails, dar al-sulh (lit. territory of treaty)...

October 29, 2012. Al-Muqaddasi (2001). Collins, B. A. (ed.). The Best Divisions for Knowledge of the Regions. Ahasan al-Taqasim Fi Ma'rifat al-Aqalim. Reading:...

2009, pp. 17-18 Dowling, 1913, p. 37 al-Muqaddasi quoted in le Strange, 1890, p. 442 Gil, 1992, p.349. Yaqut al-Hamawi quoted in le Strange, 1890, p....

 149, note 293. Al-Muqaddasi, The Best Divisions for Knowledge of the Regions (Being a translation of "Ahsan al-Taqasim fi Maʿrifat al-Aqalim"), Reading...