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The Arabic Hermes [[electronic resource] ] : from pagan sage to prophet of science / / Kevin van Bladel
| The Arabic Hermes [[electronic resource] ] : from pagan sage to prophet of science / / Kevin van Bladel |
| Autore | Van Bladel Kevin Thomas |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (291 p.) |
| Disciplina | 135/.45 |
| Collana | Oxford studies in late antiquity |
| Soggetto topico |
Theosophy
Gnosticism Science, Ancient |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9786612335365
0-19-970448-1 1-282-33536-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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"" |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996205745603316 |
Van Bladel Kevin Thomas
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| New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2009 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the marshes / / by Kevin T. Van Bladel
| From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the marshes / / by Kevin T. Van Bladel |
| Autore | Van Bladel Kevin Thomas |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 153 pages) |
| Disciplina | 299/.9 |
| Collana | Leiden studies in Islam and society |
| Soggetto topico |
Mandaeans - History
Mandaeans - Religion |
| ISBN | 90-04-33946-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Introduction -- Early Contacts between Arab Muslims and Aramaean Mandaeans and the Date of Zazay -- Theodore Bar Konay’s Account of Mandaean Origins (circa 792) -- Three Sixth-Century Syriac References to Mandaeans by Name -- On the Kentaeans and Their Relationship with the Mandaeans -- The Account of al-Ḥasan ibn Bahlūl (Bar Bahlul), Second Half of Tenth Century -- Identifying Abū ʿAlī -- The Marshes of the Ṣābians -- Other Reports on the Mandaeans after Abū ʿAlī -- Back to the Question of Origins -- Pre-Mandaean Nāṣoraeans -- The Religious Environment of Sasanian Iraq -- Mandaeism as a Changing Tradition -- Bar Konay on the Kentaeans, Dostaeans, and Nerigaeans, in English -- Ibn Waḥšīya on Aramaic Dialects -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910163088603321 |
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| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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