[Footnote 57: Pocock, (Specimen, p. 138 - 146,) Hottinger,
(Hist. Orient. p. 162 - 203,) Hyde, (de Religione Vet.
Persarum, p. 124, 128, &c.,) D'Herbelot, (Sabi, p. 725,
726,) and Sale, (Preliminary Discourse, p. 14, 15,) rather
excite than gratify our curiosity; and the last of these
writers confounds Sabianism with the primitive religion of
the Arabs.]