Jirjis al-Makin Ibn al-'Amid

Jirjis al-Makīn ibn al-ʿAmīd
جرجس المكين ابن العميد
Born1205 (1205)
Cairo, Ayyubid Sultanate (Present-day Egypt)
Died1273 (aged 67–68)
Damascus, Mamluk Sultanate (Present-day Syria)
OccupationsHistorian; civil official
Known forSynthesizing Biblical, Classical, and Islamic sources into a universal chronicle widely used by later historians
StyleChronicle-style universal history compendium
Academic work
Notable worksKitāb al-Taʾrīkh (also known as al-Majmūʿ al-Mubārak)
This article is about the historian. For his later relative, the theologian, see Al-Makīn Jirjis ibn al-ʿAmīd the Younger.

Jirjis al-Makīn (Arabic: جرجس المكين; 1206–after 1280, maybe 1293), known by his nasab Ibn al-ʿAmīd (Arabic: ابن العميد), was a Coptic Christian historian who wrote in Arabic. His name is sometimes anglicised as George Elmacin (Latin: Georgius Elmacinus).

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