Hermes and Hermetica - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Hermes and Hermetica - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
van Bladel, Kevin

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061893
Doc. NO	:	ALei2290
Main Entry	:	van Bladel, Kevin
Title & Author	:	Hermes and Hermetica - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ van Bladel, Kevin
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(2,490 words)
Abstract	:	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prophet and the author of numerous arcane works, many of which survive in Arabic manuscripts, but most of which remain unpublished.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
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2290.pdf