Les antiquités gréco-romaines entre al-Makīn Ibn al-ʿAmīd et Ibn Ḫaldūn. Notes pour une histoire de la tradition

The Coptic Historian al-Makin Girgis ibn al-'Amid (1206 - after 1280) is the author of a universal history known as al-Majmu' al-Mubarak (‘The blessed collection’). This work is divided into two parts: a section on pre-Islamic history, still unpublished, and a summary of Islamic history, edited by Erpenius in 1625 and completed by Claude Cahen. The article analyzes the two recensions of the first part of the Majmu' through the comparison of three manuscripts, in particular as regards the sections on Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine history. After discussing the particular version of the Testimonium Flavianum which can be found in the longer recension of the Majmu', the article traces the fortune of al-Makin in subsequent Islamic historiography, especially al-Qalqashandi, al-Maqrizi and Ibn Khaldun