biography
| name: |
Muqaddasi, Mohammed al-
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pronunciation:
[mukadasee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (945–88)
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| biography:
| Leading Arab geographer, and pioneer of fieldwork, born in Jerusalem. He travelled widely, and was the first to describe and categorize Muslim lands in a geographical compendium, The Best Divisions of the Study of Climate, published in 985. |
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