Yahya of Antioch, full name Yaḥya ibn Saʿīd al-Anṭākī (
Arabic: يحيى بن سعيد الأنطاكي), was a
Melkite Christian physician and historian of the 11th century.[1][2]
His chief work is a continuation of
Eutychius' Annals, stretching from 938 to 1034.[4] Drawing on a variety of sources, his history deals with events in the
Byzantine Empire,[5] Egypt, as well as
Bulgaria and the
Kievan Rus'. Whilst in Antioch, he also wrote theological works in defence of
Christianity and refutations of Islam and Judaism. He died
c. 1066.[3]
His history was published, edited and translated in 1924 by I. Kratchkovsky and A. Vasiliev into
French in Volumes 18, 23, and 47 of the Patrologia Orientalis. In 1997 it was translated into Italian by Bartolomeo Pirone.[6] A supposed English translation by J. H. Forsyth in 1977 is in fact only a study.[7]