Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr, commonly known by the nisba al-Maqdisi or al-Muqaddasī was a medieval Arab geographer, author of Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, as well as author of the book, Description of Syria .
Al-Maqdisi was from Jerusalem (Bayt al-Maqdis in Arabic), from which he received his name. He was particularly fond of the city and described it at length in his geographic work.
The regions of Islam in the tenth century, based on Al-Maqdisi's work
Acre, known locally as Akko and Akka, is a city in the coastal plain region of the Northern District of Israel.
Acre, Israel
Ottoman aqueduct to Acre
Biridiya's letter to Egypt complaining of the king of Acre's leniency towards a captured Hapiru leader.
Roman coin minted at Ptolemais/Acre