Mukaddasi, an Arab geographer, born at Jerusalem, voyaged extensively for twenty years, and described Moslem lands in a work published in 985 A.D. It was edited by De Goeje in 1877; and the part relating to Syria and Palestine was translated from the Arabic for the Palestine Pilgrim's Text Society in 1887, by Guy Le Strange.
Mukaddasi
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 339
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