TY  - JOUR
T1  - Yahya Ibn Adi on Happiness
AU - Omar, Mohd Nasir 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 7
IS  - 5
SP  - 663
EP  - 667
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2012.663.667
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2012.663.667
KW  - Happiness
KW  -ethics
KW  -akhlaq
KW  -al-Saadah
KW  -eudaimonia
KW  -Yahya Ibn Adi
AB  - Yahya Ibn Adi was among Christian scholars who especially 
  distinguished themselves in the 10/11th century in Baghdad. He was no longer 
  relying on the caliphs but found his own means of living which in turn prolonged 
  his own academic interest. Consequently, he was no mere translator any more 
  but genuine scholar. He was not only the leader of his group but was also dubbed 
  as the best Christian translator, logician and theologian of his times. This 
  is justified, in addition, by his ample productivity in those fields of enquiry. 
  A considerable number of such works have evidently been used by contemporary 
  and later writers and have also reached us today. Hence, researchers consider 
  that it is in these aspects that his distinctive contributions to scholarship 
  lie and therefore he deserves more serious study. The present study discusses 
  Yahya Ibn Adis theory of happiness (al-Saadah) as reflected in his major work 
  on ethics, Tahdhib al-Akhlaq (The refinement of character). It confines itself 
  to discussing the concept of happiness and to finding out the answer to those 
  particular questions regarding its nature such as what is meant by happiness 
  or what does happiness consist of? Why is happiness the end to be achieved by 
  man and for which sake he was created? Is happiness attainable in this life 
  or the next? Who is the happy man? and so forth.
ER  -