Yahya ibn Sa'id ibn Yahya al-Antaki known as Yahya of Antioch ( Arabic يحيى بن سعيد الأنطاكي ; c. 975 - 1066 ) was an Arabic-speaking historian at the turn of the X - XI centuries from Syrian Antioch .
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Biography
Well-known doctor, Christian ( melkit ). Born in the 970s in Egypt, in 1014/15 he moved to Antioch in northern Syria, which was under the rule of Byzantium . One of the most accurate and knowledgeable representatives of Arabic-speaking historiography. On the basis of the documents he found in Antioch, he compiled a continuation (“Tarih az-zeyl”) of the General History of the Patriarch of Alexandria Euthychus - “Chronicle”, the events of which are preserved in our lists and quotes begin with the death of John Tzimiskes in 976 and break off in 1031 the capture of Edessa by George Maniac . This essay contains valuable information on the history of the Byzantine Empire , the Abbasids and Fatimids (especially the reign of Al-Hakim bi-Amrilla ), the Christian Church (patriarchates of Alexandria, Jerusalem, Antioch and Tsaregrads). He died presumably in 1066 at an advanced age.
The work of Yahya was discovered for the world by the Russian orientalist V.R. Rosen in his work: “Emperor Vasily Bolgaroboyets. Extracts from the annals of Yahya of Antioch. ”-SPb, 1883.
Notes
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
Links
- Rosen V.R. Emperor Vasily Bolgaroboyets. Extracts from the annals of Yahya of Antioch. SPb. 1883 (unreachable link) . Eastern literature . Date of treatment February 11, 2011. Archived on February 20, 2011.
- Yahya of Antioch // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.