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Description of  Al-Makin Girgis Ibn Al-Amid: Universal History The Vulgate Recensionp From Adam to the End of the Achaemenids (Arabic Christianity, 6) (English and Arabic Edition)

9004549986 pdf "When the 13th-century Coptic official al-Makin Ibn al-'Amid was thrown into prison by Sultan Baybars, he set out to compile a summary of Biblical, Graeco-Roman, and Islamic history for his own consolation. His work, which drew from a vast array of sources, enjoyed enduring success among various readerships: Oriental Christians, in Arabic-speaking communities but also in Ethiopia Mamluk historians, including Ibn Haldun and al-Maqrizi and early modern Europe. A major instance of Christian-Muslim interaction in the pre-modern era, Ibn al-'Amid's chronography is still unpublished in its pre-Islamic part. This volume edits, analyzes, and translates the section from Adam to the Achaemenids"--