Achmet (oneiromancer)

Achmet, son of Seirim (Gk. Αχμέτ υιός Σειρείμ), the author of a work on the interpretation of dreams, the , is probably not the same person as Abu Bekr Mohammed Ben Sirin, whose work on the same subject is still extant in Arabic in the Royal Library at Paris, and who was born AH 33 (AD 653-4) and died AH 110 (AD 728-9). The two names Ahmed or Achimet and Mohammed consist in Arabic of four letters each, and differ only in the first.

Achmet (oneiromancer)

Achmet, son of Seirim (Gk. Αχμέτ υιός Σειρείμ), the author of a work on the interpretation of dreams, the , is probably not the same person as Abu Bekr Mohammed Ben Sirin, whose work on the same subject is still extant in Arabic in the Royal Library at Paris, and who was born AH 33 (AD 653-4) and died AH 110 (AD 728-9). The two names Ahmed or Achimet and Mohammed consist in Arabic of four letters each, and differ only in the first.