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Maqdisi

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Maqdisi or Muqaddasi ( ) is an Arabic nisba referring to Palestinian Jerusalemites . The Arabic name for Jerusalem is Al Quds .1 Al-Maqdisi ( المقدسي ) 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 cleric 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").2

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Then

arabic nesbat derived from the semitic triliteral root q-d-s

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arabic nisba referring to palestinian jerusalemites

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