Under the
influence of Jews, early Christians and Essenes of Arabia, these
people were familiar with Greek, Syrian and Abbysinian churches
and practiced meditation. The Essenes had links back to early
Sumeria and would appear to have been the remnants of the
priest class in the old role society who carried down from father
to son much of the specialist scientific knowledge of those
early times including astronomy, mathematics, physics, biology
etc. Abraham was a Hanif.