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Contents 10 Note on Documentation and Transliteration 12 Part I: Background 14 1. Introduction 16 1.1 The Ancient Greek Hermetica of Roman Egypt and Their European Reception 17 1.2 The Reception of the Greek Hermetica in Antiquity 23 1.3 The Birth of Arabic Scholarship and the Books of the Ancients in Baġdād 27 1.4 Understanding the Terms Hermetic and Hermetism in the Arabic Context 30 2. Hermes in Sasanian Iran 36 2.1 Evidence for Hermes in Sasanian Magical Texts 38 2.2 The Hermes of the Sasanian Astrologers 40 2.3 The Later Testimonies of Sasanian Translation from Greek into Middle Persian 43 2.4 Some Supposedly Sasanian Horoscopes 52 2.5 Hermetica in the Time of Šāpūhr I 54 2.6 Ostanes and the Magi 61 2.7 Ostanes and Hermes in Arabic 67 2.8 The Hymn of the Pearl and the Iranian History of Science 71 2.9 The Role of Alexander in the Iranian History of Science 71 2.10 Conclusions 75 3. Hermes and the Sābians of Harrān 77 3.1 Introduction to the Problem of the “Sābians” 79 3.2 A Harrānian Platonic School? 83 3.3 The Alleged Influence of Harrānian Hermetica 92 3.4 The Evidence for a Harrānian Sābian Transmission of the Hermetica 96 3.5 The End of the Harrānian Sābians 117 3.6 Conclu

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