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Al-Muqaddasi
Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Shams al-Dīn al-Muqaddasī , also transliterated as el-Mukaddasi or al-Maqdisī , (c. 945/946 - 991) was a medieval Arab geographer, author of Aḥsan al-taqāsim fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm (The Best Divisions in the Knowledge of the Regions).