Al-Dimashqi
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The Arabic nisbah (attributive title) Al-Dimashqi (Arabic: الدمشقي) denotes an origin from Damascus, Syria.
Al-Dimashqi may refer to:
- Al-Dimashqi (geographer): a medieval Arab geographer.
- Abu al-Fadl Ja'far ibn 'Ali al-Dimashqi: 12th-century Muslim merchant.
- Al-Dhahabi: Shafi'i Muhaddith and historian of Islam.
- Ibn al-Nafis: Arab physician who is mostly famous for being the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of the blood.
- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya: a prominent Sunni Islamic jurist.
- Ibn 'Asakir: a Sunni Islamic scholar and historian
- John of Damascus (Yuhanna al-Dimashqi) - Christian monk