Hermes Trismegistos

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ancient dispenser of knowledge

Names

Arabic: هرمس = Hirmis 1
Arabic: هرميس = Hirmīs 2
Arabic: هرمس الأول = Hirmis al-Awwal 3

Attributes

Male

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1-2	before c. 1225	c.1225	877 A.H. / 1472	1995
Event mentioned by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa.3	before 1354 CE	1354-1356	early 1180 A.H. / 1766	1997

Sources

1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (1) 25، 26 [Arabic].
2Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (5) 401 [Arabic].
3Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Riḥlat Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: al-musammāt Tuḥfat al-niẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār, edited by ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Tāzī (al-Ribāṭ: Akādīmiyyat al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiyya, 1417 H [1996-97]), 1:209 [Arabic].
- Hermes the Ancient: H. A. R. Gibb, C. F. Beckingham, and A. D. H. Bivar, trans., The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1958-2000), I, 50 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, “Hermes Trismegistos” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/12147.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and matching, Arabic collection and transliteration from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's travel account

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