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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Nikolai NikolaevichSeleznyovAl-Makīn ibn al-‘Amīd on Moses of Cretehttp://syriaca.org/cbss/RZZ63URWhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/RZZ63URWhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/RZZ63URWScrinium152019321-347In the first, still unpublished, volume of The Blessed Compendium (al-Majmūʿ al-mu­bārak) – the historical work of the 13th-century Arabic-speaking Christian writer al-Makīn ibn al-ʿAmīd, there is a chapter on the Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II the Younger (r. 402-450). In this chapter, Ibn al-ʿAmīd retells the famous story of Moses of Crete, “who appeared among the Jews” and declared himself to be the Messiah to subsequent tragic disappointment of those who believed in him. The present article discusses this story and suggests an explanation for the discrepancies between Ibn al-ʿAmīd’s text and its Arabic source – the Book of the Heading (Kitāb al-ʿUnwān) of Agapius of Manbij (Hierapolis). Seleznyov, Nikolai Nikolaevich. “Al-Makīn Ibn al-‘Amīd on Moses of Crete.” Scrinium 15 (2019): 321–47. Nikolai Nikolaevich Seleznyov, Al-Makīn Ibn al-‘Amīd on Moses of Crete, Scrinium 15 (2019): 321–47.Arab ChristiansCoptsJacobitesJewsVII-XVIII CEXIII CEal-Makin Ibn al-Amidhistoriography