Hermes and Hermetica - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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van Bladel, Kevin
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Leiden
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Brill
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The legendary Hermes , in Arabic Hirmis (occasionally Hirmīs), called al-Muthallath bi-l-Ḥikma ("Threefold-in-Wisdom")-variations such as al-Muthallath bi-l-Niʿma ("Threefold-in-Grace") are also found-was known among premodern Arabic scholars as an ancient sage and prophet and the author of numerous arcane works, many of which survive in Arabic manuscripts, but most of which remain unpublished. Hermes Trismegistus ("Thrice Greatest") was the name given to Thoth, the Egyptian god of scribal learning, by the authors of Greek discourses and treatises composed in Roman