The Pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica are a core subgroup of Arabic Hermetic texts which take the form of discourses and letters of the philosopher Aristotle to Alexander the Great. The texts concern an array of subjects, including cosmology, the fabrication of amulets and talismans, and astrological knowledge. In these texts, Aristotle claims to have originally learned the knowledge that he passes on to Alexander from the legendary sage Hermes Trismegistus, who was also the central figure of a body of philosophical, astrological, and alchemical writings composed in Greco-Roman Egypt between roughly 300 BC and 400 AD. Although the Pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica (hereafter PsAH) and related writings have been dated to the ninth century AD, these Arabic texts are now proven to have carried
