1390s), called the Younger, was a Coptic priest, theologian, physician and civil servant in the Mamluk Sultanate.
The title al-makīn means "the powerful" and had been held by an earlier member of the family, the historian Jirjis ibn al-ʿAmīd.
Jirjis's brother, al-Asʿad Ibrāhīm, served as the secretary (kātib) of the Mamluk dīwān al-jaysh (army council).
[1] Jirjis retired to live as a hermit in the monastery of Dayr al-Qusayr in the Ṭura south of Cairo.
It contains extensive biblical exegesis, as well as Coptic apologetics against Judaism, Islam, the Melkites and the Dyophysites.