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‭<The> Arabic Hermes: From Pagan Sage to Prophet of Science‬

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‭ Arabic Hermes: From Pagan Sage to Prophet of Science‬

\ Kevin van Bladel

Oxford, New York

: Oxford University Press

, 2009

xii, 278p

(Oxford studies in late antiquity)

Code E.Book: 8031

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The Ancient Greek Hermetica of Roman Egypt and Their European Reception . The Reception of the Greek Hermetica in Antiquity . The Birth of Arabic Scholarship and the Booksof the Ancients in Baġdād . Understanding the Terms Hermetic and Hermetismin the Arabic Context . Hermes in Sasanian Iran . Evidence for Hermes in Sasanian Magical Text . The Hermes of the Sasanian Astrologers . The Later Testimonies of Sasanian Translationfrom Greek into Middle Persian 2.4 Some Supposedly Sasanian Horoscopes 392.5 Hermetica in the Time of Šāpūr I 412.6 Ostanes and the Magi 482.7 Ostanes and Hermes in Arabic 542.8 The Hymn of the Pearl and the Iranian History of Science 582.9 The Role of Alexander in the Iranian History of Science 582.10 Conclusions 623. Hermes and the Ṣābians of Ḥarrān 643.1 Introduction to the Problem of the “Ṣābians” 663.2 A Ḥarrānian Platonic School? 703.3 The Alleged Infl uence of Ḥarrānian Hermetica 793.4 The Evidence for a Ḥarrānian Ṣābian Transmission of the Hermetica 83x Contentx3.5 The End of the Ḥarrānian Ṣābians 1043.6 Conclusions 113Appendix to Chapter 3. The Ḥarrānians and India 115Part II History of the Arabic Herme . The Three Hermeses .The Earliest Form of the Arabic Legend of Three Hermeses . Ancient Greek Antecedents to the Arabic Legend . A Trail of Chronicles . Annianus in Syriac and Arabic . Abu - Ma<šar as a Chronographer . Other Aspects of the Hermes Legend . The Third Hermes . Conclusions . Hermes the Prophet . The Heavenly Ascent of Hermes . Hermes the Lawgiver: Hermes as Presented by al-Mubaššir ibn Fātik . The Wisdom of the Arabic Hermes. The Synthesis in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries . Conclusion: The Making of the Arabic Hermes

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