Yahya Ibn ‘Adi

Yahya Ibn ‘Adi 

He was Abu Zachariah Yahya Ibn 'Adi Ibn Hamïd Ibn Zachariah, the logician, of Takrit and resident of Baghdad. He studied under Abu Bishr Matthew and Abu Nasr al Faràbi. He was the chief logician of his time. He lived eighty-one years and died in 974. His writings are tremendous. In his treatise “The Ethikon,” which was published in Chicago in 1928, we recorded seventy works by him, including books and treatises. He translated from Syriac into Arabic ten works, which are: The Taws by Plato , Theophrastos the Metaphysics , De Dialectica, De Sophist, De Poetica, The Treatise on the Tour Categories, The Second Treatise on Physics, The Tetter "pi" of Aristotle's Theology and On Meteorology 

He also revised the translation of Alexander's commentary on the treatise On the Heavens translated by Bishr Ibn Matta the first treatise of Physics translated by Abu Rawh al-Sabi' and Timeus by Plato

Sources: 

• Patriarch Ignatius Aphram I Barsoum (2004), The Scattered Pearls, A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, Translated and Edited by Matti Moosa, New Jersey