Yahya Al Nahwi

Yahya al-Nahwi, a pupil of Sawari, and a bishop in some churches of Egypt of the Jacobite Christians. Ibn al-Nadim reports that he turned back from the doctrine of the Trinity. The bishops debated with him and prevailed over him, and asked him to return; he refused, so they removed him from his office.

He lived until the conquest of Egypt by Amr ibn al-As, went in to him, and he honoured him.

He wrote the book "Refutation of Proclus" in eighteen treatises, a book "Refutation of Aristotle" in six treatises, and a book on the principle that every finite body has finite power ².