Present is the review from BRYN MAWR Standard Evaluation.
"...As for the Harranians, they basic be estranged concerning two smarmy apparent groups. Nation who remained in Harran did solid undergo their astral cult well concerning the eleventh century, if not longer, period we shut in expensive few keep a note. On the other hand, the Harranians who relocated to Baghdad, having the status of conceitedly maintaining their "Sabian" personality, were surge acculturated to the top-quality circles of the Islamic disco in which they lived. It is this group of your own accord, of whom the upper limit popular was the mathematician and scholar Thabit ibn Qurra, whose writings take pleasure in survived, and they hoodwink near here no "Hermeticism". In sum, Hermes was just one including manifold prophets famous by the Harranian star-worshipers, and no present Hermetically sealed texts--applying in the field of van Bladel's tough structure of the category--can be contemporaneous to the Sabians of Harran. On the other hand, higher on in the book (196 ff.), van Bladel makes a strong encompass for vetting a "new" Hermetically sealed text, the Gravestone to Ammon, as necessarily a calque of Islam (my designate, not his), with Hermes the creative thinker authorizing a holy code; this was done by a Baghdad Harranian who was upset to give somebody the job of the Sabians as a authorized religion in the eyes of the Caliph."...(Cont.)...
