The Arabic Hermes [[electronic resource] ] : from pagan sage to prophet of science / / Kevin van Bladel
Pubbl/distr/stampa
New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2009
ISBN
9786612335365
0-19-970448-1
1-282-33536-7
Descrizione fisica
1 online resource (291 p.)
Collana
Oxford studies in late antiquity
Disciplina
135/.45
Soggetti
Theosophy
Gnosticism
Science, Ancient
Electronic books.
Lingua di pubblicazione
Inglese
Formato
Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico
Monografia
Note generali
Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto
""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Note on Documentation and Transliteration""; ""Part I: Background""; ""1. Introduction""; ""1.1 The Ancient Greek Hermetica of Roman Egypt and Their European Reception""; ""1.2 The Reception of the Greek Hermetica in Antiquity""; ""1.3 The Birth of Arabic Scholarship and the Books of the Ancients in Bagdad""; ""1.4 Understanding the Terms Hermetic and Hermetism in the Arabic Context""; ""2. Hermes in Sasanian Iran""; ""2.1 Evidence for Hermes in Sasanian Magical Texts""; ""2.2 The Hermes of the Sasanian Astrologers""
""3.4 The Evidence for a Harranian Sabian Transmission of the Hermetica""""3.5 The End of the Harranian Sabians""; ""3.6 Conclusions""; ""Appendix to Chapter 3. The Harranians and India""; ""Part II: History of the Arabic Hermes""; ""4. The Three Hermeses""; ""4.1 The Earliest Form of the Arabic Legend of Three Hermeses""; ""4.2 Ancient Greek Antecedents to the Arabic Legend""; ""4.3 A Trail of Chronicles""; ""4.4 Annianus in Syriac and Arabic""; ""4.5 Abu Ma�šar as a Chronographer""; ""4.6 Other Aspects of the Hermes Legend""; ""4.7 The Third Hermes""; ""4.8 Conclusions""
""5. Hermes the Prophet""""5.1 The Heavenly Ascent of Hermes""; ""5.2 Hermes the Lawgiver: Hermes as Presented by al-Mubaššir ibn Fatik""; ""5.3 The Wisdom of the Arabic Hermes""; ""5.4 The Synthesis in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries and Beyond""; ""6. Conclusion: The Making of the Arabic Hermes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""
Sommario/riassunto
This is the first major study devoted to the early Arabic reception and adaption of the figure of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Egyptian sage to whom were ascribed numerous works on astrology, alchemy, talismans, medicine, and philosophy.