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Abū Zakarīyā’ Yaḥyá ibn ʿAdī (''John, father of Zachary, son of Adi'') known as Yahya ibn Adi (893–974) was a Syriac Jacobite Christian〔 Ira M. Lapidus, ''Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History'', (Cambridge University Press, 2012), 200.〕 philosopher, theologian and translator working in Arabic. ==Biography== Yahya ibn Adi was born in Tikrit (modern-day Iraq) to a family of arabised Syriac Jacobite Christians in 893. In Baghdad he studied philosophy and medicine under Abu Bishr Matta ibn Yunus, who had also taught Al-Farabi.〔Nicholas Rescher, ''Studies in Arabic Philosophy'', (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968), 39.〕 He translated numerous works of Greek philosophy into Arabic, mostly from existing versions in Syriac.〔 These include: Plato's Laws; Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations (from a Syriac translation by Theophilus of Edessa) and Topics (from a translation by Hunayn ibn Ishaq); and Theophrastus' Metaphysics. He also composed a number of philosophical and theological treatises, the most significant being ''Tahdhib al-akhlaq'' and ''Maqala fi at-tawhid''. He taught a number of Christian and Muslim students, including Ibn Miskawayh, Ibn al-Khammar and Ibn Zura. He died in 974 and is buried in the Syriac church of St Thomas in Baghdad.〔〔Sidney Harrison Griffith, ''The Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic: Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Early Islamic Period'', (Ashgate, 2002), 8.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yahya ibn Adi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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