Chapter 3. Eight Sabian Doctrines

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Chapter 1. al-Sirr al-maktūm 1
5. Chapter 2. Sabians 48
6. Chapter 3. Eight Sabian Doctrines 65
7. Chapter 4. The General Physics of Talismans 102
8. Chapter 5. Making Talismans 124
9. Chapter 6. Sabian Spiritual Discipline and Avicennan Cognition Theory 138
10. Chapter 7. Sabian Perfected Man and the Avicennan Theory of Prophethood 169
11. Chapter 8. Occult Epistemology 200
12. Chapter 9. An Alternative Account of Astral Visions 212
13. Chapter 10. A Clarification 217
14. Chapter 11. al-Maṭālib 8 and the New Islamic Soteriology 229
15. Chapter 12. Concluding Remarks 250
16. Appendix 269
17. Select Bibliography 283
18. Index of Names 293
19. Index of Subjects 295