Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Shams al-Din al-Muqaddasi

945 (age 55)

Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel

He had the advantage of an excellent education and after having made the Pilgrimage to Mecca in his twentieth year, determined to devote himself to the study of geography. lieutenant was only in 985 that he set himself to write his book, which gives us a systematic account of all the places and regions he had visited. Le Strange comments of First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Mukaddassi work: " His description of Palestine, and especially of Jerusalem, his native city, is one of the best parts of the work. All that he wrote is the fruit of his own observation, and his descriptions of the manners and customs of the various countries, bear the stamp of a shrewd and observant mind, fortified by profound knowledge of both books and men".

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First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Muqaddasi, "the Hierosolomite" was born in Jerusalem in 946 AD.

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He had the advantage of an excellent education and after having made the Pilgrimage to Mecca in his twentieth year, determined to devote himself to the study of geography. lieutenant was only in 985 that he set himself to write his book, which gives us a systematic account of all the places and regions he had visited. Le Strange comments of First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Mukaddassi work: " His description of Palestine, and especially of Jerusalem, his native city, is one of the best parts of the work.

All that he wrote is the fruit of his own observation, and his descriptions of the manners and customs of the various countries, bear the stamp of a shrewd and observant mind, fortified by profound knowledge of both books and men".

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