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"I was not able to compile this book until after my tours in countries, my entry into the regions of Islam, my meeting with scholars, my service to kings, sitting with judges, my study of jurists, my contact with writers, reciters, and hadith writers, my interaction with ascetics and Sufis, my attendance at councils of retaliation and remembrancers, with the necessity of trade in every country, and intercourse with Every Sunday, and meditate on these reasons with a strong understanding until you know them, and the area of ​​​​the regions in even farsakhs I mastered it, and I traveled around the borders until I liberated it, and I traveled to the genera until I knew them, and I searched for doctrines until I learned them, and I studied tongues and colors until I arranged them, and I studied in the balls until I separated them, and I searched for the outputs until I counted them with the taste of the air, the weight of the water, and the intensity of the struggle."
This paragraph at the beginning of the book "Ahsan al-Taqasim fi Ma'rifat al-Aqilim," the most famous book by the Arab geographer "Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr," known as al-Maqdisi after his home city of Jerusalem in Palestine, explains the reason for the book's distinction and reveals the secret of its survival for more than a thousand years, as al-Maqdisi only wrote After examining and experimenting, he put a summary of his experiences and travel experience in this book. Which was distinguished by its author's great ability to describe countries, and his amazing detail in describing the social, cultural, economic, and religious life of the peoples of the places he visited.