Maqdisi Explained

Maqdisi (Arabic: مقدسي) is an Arabic nisba referring to a Jerusalemite. It is derived from Bayt al-Maqdis, an Arabic name for Jerusalem, by way of the Hebrew Beit HaMikdash, the Temple in Jerusalem. Today, the common Arabic name of Jerusalem is al-Quds.

Al-Maqdisi (Arabic: المقدسي) is surname the most commonly refer to Al-Maqdisi, a medieval Arab geographer born in Jerusalem.

It can also refer to a number of other people, including:

• Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi, classical Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar
• Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, contemporary Jordanian-Palestinian Salafi Islamist scholar
• Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi, a Hanbali Islamic scholar
• Ibn Qudamah, Imam Mawaffaq ad-Din Abdullah Ibn Ahmad Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi, a Hanbali Islamic scholar
• Ibn Tahir of Caesarea, Muslim historian and traditionist (c. 1057–1113)
• Kamel al-Budeiri, governor of Ramla district during the later Ottoman period
• Hisham Al-Saedni, known by the nom de guerre Abu al-Walid al-Maqdisi

See also

• Qudsi (disambiguation)
• Muqaddas (disambiguation)
• Al-Quds (disambiguation)
• Arabic name