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Hermeticism & Neoplatonism

The Arabic Hermes

From Pagan Sage to Prophet of Science

by Kevin van Bladel

A study of how Hermes Trismegistus became a figure of Arabic learning, identified with the prophet Idris and treated as the founder of the sciences.

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