al-Maqdisī
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al-Maqdisī is the commonly used name for the 10th-century Arab geographer and traveler Al-Muqaddasī, renowned for his detailed description of the Islamic world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| al-Maqdisī canonical | 1 |
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographer
ⓘ
historian of geography ⓘ person ⓘ traveler ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
al-Maqdisi
NERFINISHED
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al-Muqaddasī al-Bashshārī NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCentury | 10th century ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Arabic-Islamic scholarship ⓘ |
| deathCentury | 10th century ⓘ |
| described |
Islamic world
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
cities of the Islamic world ⓘ provinces of the Islamic caliphate ⓘ social and economic conditions in Islamic lands ⓘ trade routes in the Islamic world ⓘ |
| era | Islamic Golden Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Arabs
ⓘ
surface form:
Arab
|
| fieldOfWork |
Islamic studies
ⓘ
geography ⓘ travel literature ⓘ |
| genre |
geographical treatise
ⓘ
travel narrative ⓘ |
| givenName | Muḥammad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriodDescribed | 10th-century Islamic world ⓘ |
| influenced |
later Islamic geographers
ⓘ
medieval geographical literature ⓘ |
| knownFor |
detailed regional geography of the Islamic world
ⓘ
systematic classification of Islamic provinces ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Arabic ⓘ |
| methodology |
first-hand travel observation
ⓘ
use of administrative and scholarly sources ⓘ |
| nameInArabic | المقدسي NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameVariant | Al-Muqaddasī NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notability | major source for medieval Islamic geography ⓘ |
| notableWork | Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
geographer ⓘ traveler ⓘ |
| patronymic | ibn Aḥmad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Jerusalem region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| workFocus |
administrative divisions of Islamic territories
ⓘ
religious and cultural life in Islamic cities ⓘ topography and climate of regions ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.