Abstract
The record of early Islamic history, far from being fixed at the beginning of the 8th/14th century, remains a subject for adaptation and revision. Three historical works composed in the western Maghrib, the Kitāb al‑ansāb, the Mafākhir al‑barbar and the Bayān of Ibn ʿIdhārī are evidence of discussions that preoccupy scholars. In the political context of transition between the Almohad and Merinid dynasties, the debates deal, more particularly, with the division of time and space that plays a decisive role in the construction of the collective memory. What is at stake, for the Merinids, but also for all elites (ancient or modern) is the (re)definition of their social position and its legitimation through the elaboration of a shared approach to the past
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