abstract:The Sabians () of Middle Eastern tradition are a variety of monotheistic: Gnostic (Mandeans), Hermetic (Harranian) as well as Abrahamic religions mentioned three times in the Quran with the people of the Book, "the Jews, the Sabians, and the Christians."Bernard Lewis The Jews of Islam 1987 page 13 In the hadith, they are described merely as converts to Islam,e.