Elmacin

ELMACIN (ELMAKIN or ELMACINUS), GEORGE (c. 1223-1274), author of a history of the Saracens, which extends from the time of Mahomet to the year u 18 of our era. He was a Christian of Egypt, where he was born; is known in the east as Ibn-Amid; and after holding an official position under the sultans of Egypt, died at Damascus. His history is principally occupied with the affairs of the Saracen empire, but it contains passages which relate to the Eastern Christians. It was published in Arabic and Latin at Leiden in 1625. The Latin version is a translation by Erpenius, under the title, Historic, saracenica, and from this a French translation was made by Wattier as L'Histoire mahometane (Paris, 1657).