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Evidence for Hermeticism in pre-Islamic Arabia?

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Has there ever been evidence of Hermeticism, i.e. Greco-Roman-Egyptian syncretic religion/philosophy being practiced in the Arabian Peninsula before Islam? I know that both Greco-Roman and Egyptian cults were present amongst traders and adjacent Arab tribes, and that the Sabians of Harran in Syria preserved and practiced a Hellenized Semitic pagan religion with Hermetic/Neoplatonic characteristics up into the 9th century, long after the advent of Islam. Were there similar cases or instances in Arabia proper?
 
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