Maqdisi
Encyclopedia
Maqdisi or Muqaddasi is an Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

 nisbat implying origin in Jerusalem. The word is derived from the Semitic
Semitic
In linguistics and ethnology, Semitic was first used to refer to a language family of largely Middle Eastern origin, now called the Semitic languages...

 triliteral
Triliteral
The roots of verbs and most nouns in the Semitic languages are characterized as a sequence of consonants or "radicals"...

 root Q-D-S
Q-D-Š
Q-D-Š is a common triconsonantal Semitic root form used in various ancient and modern languages since at least the 3rd millennium BCE. The meanings expressed by this root are "Holy", "Sacred", "Divine Power", "To Set Apart", and "Sanctuary"...

 (meaning "holy") to denote the Arabic name for Jerusalem, Al Quds.

Al-Maqdisi (المقدسي) is used as an appellative to refer to a number of people, including:
  • Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi
    Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi
    Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi is a classical Sunni Islamic scholar and a prominent Hadith master.-Works:He is the author of many famous works, including :*al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal *Umdat al-Ahkam -References:...

    , classical Sunni Islamic scholar
  • Al-Maqdisi
    Al-Muqaddasi
    Muhammad ibn Ahmad Shams al-Din Al-Muqaddasi , also transliterated as Al-Maqdisi and el-Mukaddasi, was a medieval Arab geographer, author of Ahsan at-Taqasim fi Ma`rifat il-Aqalim .-Biography:Al-Muqaddasi, "the Hierosolomite" was born in Jerusalem in 946 AD...

    , medieval Arab geographer born in Jerusalem
  • Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi
    Abu Muhammad Asem al-Maqdisi
    Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi or more fully Abu Muhammad Asem al-Maqdisi is the assumed name of Isam Mohammad Tahir al-BarqawiAbu Muhammad al-Maqdisi or more fully Abu Muhammad Asem al-Maqdisi (أبو محمد عصام المقدسي) is the assumed name of Isam Mohammad Tahir al-BarqawiAbu Muhammad al-Maqdisi or more...

    , contemporary Jordanian Muslim cleric
  • Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi
    Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi
    Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn Abu ʻAbdallah Muhammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahid al-Saʻdi al-Maqdisi al-Hanbali was a Hanbali Islamic scholar.-Biography:Diya' al-Din was born in Damascus in 1173...

    , a Hanbali Islamic scholar
  • Ibn Qudamah
    Ibn Qudamah
    Imam Mawaffaq ad-Din Abdullah Ibn Ahmad Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi was a noted Islamic scholar of the Hanbali madhhab, author of many treatises of Hanbali jurisprudence and doctrine, including al-Mughni as well as Tahrim an-Nazar Imam Mawaffaq ad-Din Abdullah Ibn Ahmad Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi (Arabic...

    , Imam Mawaffaq ad-Din Abdullah Ibn Ahmad Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi, a Hanbali Islamic scholar
  • Kamel al-Budeiri
    Kamel al-Budeiri
    Muhammad Kāmil ibn Wahba al-Shāfi'ī al-Muqaddasī al-Budayrī was a famous Palestinian figure in the early 20th century. He was born in Jerusalem in 1882 and assassinated in 1923 in Wadi Rum during the British Mandate and Transjordan....

    , governor of Ramla
    Ramla
    Ramla , is a city in central Israel. The city is predominantly Jewish with a significant Arab minority. Ramla was founded circa 705–715 AD by the Umayyad Caliph Suleiman ibn Abed al-Malik after the Arab conquest of the region...

     district during the laater Ottoman period


It is also used in Arabic names for Jerusalem, such as Bayt al-Maqdis ("holy house").
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK