• romanized: al-Maqdisī) or al-Muqaddasī (Arabic: ٱلْمُقَدَّسِي) was a medieval Arab geographer, author of Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm (The Best Divisions...
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    geographer al-Muqaddasi, 11th-century scholar Nasir Khusraw, 12th-century geographer al-Idrisi and 15th-century Islamic scholar Mujir al-Din, as well...
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  • 2019, S. 347. (German) al-Bazdawī: Kitāb Uṣūl ad-Dīn. 2003, S. 254. Šams ad-Dīn al-Muqaddasī: Kitāb Aḥsan at-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm. Ed. M. J. de...
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    geographer al-Muqaddasi, 11th-century scholar Nasir Khusraw, 12th-century geographer al-Idrisi and 15th-century Islamic scholar Mujir al-Din, as well as...
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    is found in the following passage from Kitab al-Bad' wah-tarikh, by the medieval Arab writer al-Muqaddasī: As for the Zanj, they are people of black color...
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  • al-Tamimi's contemporaries was the famed Arab geographer, Al-Muqaddasi, also from Jerusalem. Like Al-Muqaddasi, he brings down in his writings curious anecdotes...
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  • of the Varangians was recognized by the Arabs as early as the time of al-Muqaddasī (ca. 945–1000), who had described the Rūs as "two kinds of Byzantines"...
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    médiéval: VIIe-XIe siècle (in French). Armand Colin. ISBN 978-2-200-28342-1. al-Muqaddasī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad (2001). The best divisions for knowledge of the regions...
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  • in Islam are dar al-Islam (lit. territory of Islam/voluntary submission to God), denoting regions where Islamic law prevails, dar al-sulh (lit. territory...
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    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...
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