Maqdisi () 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 () 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:
Al-Maqdisi (949–991), Arab geographer 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 Srood Maqdasy, Assyrian politician from Iraq
See also Qudsi (disambiguation) Muqaddas (disambiguation) Al-Quds (disambiguation) Arabic name
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