MAQDISI, AL-

born c. 946 died c. 1000 in full Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Al-maqdisi, also called Al-muqaddasi Arab traveler, geographer, and author of a noted work based on personal observations of the populations, manners, and economic life of the various inhabitants of the lands of Islam, Ahson at-taqasim fi ma'rifat al-aqalim (985; The Best of Classification for the Knowledge of Regions).