What is "maqdisi"

Maqdisi or Muqaddasi is an Arabic nisba referring to Palestinian Jerusalemites. The Arabic name for Jerusalem is Al Quds.

Al-Maqdisi is used as an appellative to refer to a number of people, including:

• Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi, classical Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar
• Al-Muqaddasi, medieval Arab geographer born in Jerusalem
• 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
• Kamel al-Budeiri, governor of Ramla district during the laater Ottoman period
• Abu al-Walid al-Maqdisi, Founder of the Militant group Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem

It is also used in Arabic names for Jerusalem, such as Bayt al-Maqdis ("holy house").