Outline of Mandaeism

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Mandaeism.

People

• Mandaeans

Mandaean diaspora

• Mandaean Americans
• Mandaean Australians
• Mandaeans in Sweden

Historical identities

• Essenes
• Gnostics
• Sabians
• Nasoraeans

Related groups

• Kentaeans
• Elcesaites
• Ebionites
• Borborites
• Euchites
• Quqites
• Archontics
• Bana'im
• Hemerobaptists
• Maghāriya

Names

• Mandaean name
• Family names
• Choheili
• Khaffagi

Mandaean priests

• Mandaean priest
• List of Mandaean priests
• Titles and rankings
• Rishama (patriarch)
• Ganzibra (senior priest)
• Tarmida (junior priest)
• Assistant roles
• Shganda (priestly assistant; acolyte)
• Institutions
• Mandaean Council of Ahvaz
• Sabian Mandaean Association in Australia

Individual priests

• First millennium CE
• Shlama beth Qidra
• Zazai of Gawazta
• Anush bar Danqa
• 19th century
• Yahya Bihram
• Ram Zihrun
• Bibia Mudalal
• 20th century
• Abdullah Khaffagi
• Negm bar Zahroon
• Abdullah bar Negm
• Abdullah bar Sam
• Dakhil Aidan
• Jabbar Choheili
• Living people
• Salah Choheili
• Najah Choheili
• Taleb Doraji
• Khaldoon Majid Abdullah
• Sattar Jabbar Hilow
• Yuhana Nashmi
• Sahi Bashikh
• Brikha Nasoraia
• Rafid al-Sabti
• Salwan Alkhamas

Notable Mandaeans (non-priests)

• Nasser Sobbi
• Dakhil Shooshtary
• Lamia Abbas Amara
• Abdul Jabbar Abdullah
• Sinan Abdullah
• Zahroun Amara
• Salem Choheili

Literature

• List of Mandaic manuscripts

Main texts

• Ginza Rabba
• Right Ginza
• Left Ginza
• Huntington MS 6
• Mandaean Book of John

Prayers

• Qulasta (prayerbook)
• List of Qulasta prayers
• Codex Marshall 691
• Sidra d-Nishmata
• Niana
• Rushma
• Asut Malkia
• Rahma
• Tabahatan
• Shal Shulta
• Shumhata
• King of Kings
• Kd azil bhira dakia

Priestly texts

• The Thousand and Twelve Questions
• Scroll of Exalted Kingship
• The Coronation of the Great Shishlam
• The Wedding of the Great Shishlam
• Alma RiÅ¡aia Rba
• Alma RiÅ¡aia Zuá¹­a
• Zihrun Raza Kasia
• Scroll of the Parwanaya
• Scroll of the Great Baptism
• Scroll of the Ancestors
• The Baptism of Hibil Ziwa
• Scroll of Abatur
• Dmut KuÅ¡á¹­a
• Secrets of the Ancestors
• Scroll of the Rivers
• Book of the Zodiac

Historical texts

• Haran Gawaita

Apotropaic texts

• Incantation bowls
• Lead rolls
• MS Drower 43

Manuscript collections

• Drower Collection
• Rbai Rafid Collection

Cosmology

• Mandaean cosmology

Intermediary realms

• Tibil (Earth)
• Yardna (river)
• Matarta (purgatory)
• Hitfun (a dividing river)
• Shahrat (a light-ship)
• Shatrin (a tree in limbo)

World of Light

• World of Light
• Hayyi Rabbi (Supreme Deity)
• Shkina (celestial dwelling)
• Piriawis (celestial river)
• Anana (cloud)
• Gufna (vine)
• Ziwa (radiance)
• Mshunia Kushta (heavenly world of ideal counterparts)
• Tarwan (a "pure land")
• Yasana (a heavenly gate)

Uthras

• Uthra (angelic or celestial being)
• Yushamin (Second Life)
• Abatur (Third Life)
• Ptahil (Fourth Life)
• Hibil (Abel)
• Shitil (Seth)
• Anush (Enosh)
• Sam Ziwa (Shem)
• Manda d-Hayyi ("Gnosis of Life")
• Shilmai
• Nidbai
• Adathan and Yadathan
• Yufin-Yufafin
• Urfeil and Marfeil
• Tar and Tarwan
• Bihram
• Zihrun
• Etinsib Ziwa
• Nbat
• Nsab
• Gubran
• Shihlun
• Yura
• Yurba
• Yukabar
• Yukashar
• Yawar Ziwa
• Simat Hayyi ("Treasure of Life")
• Saureil

World of Darkness

• World of Darkness
• Sea of Suf (a dividing sea)
• Siniawis (a river)
• Jesus in Mandaeism (Mshiha)

Demons

• Demons in Mandaeism
• Ruha ("Spirit")
• Ur (Leviathan)
• Krun
• Gaf
• Qin
• Anathan
• Shdum
• Giu
• Hag and Mag
• Zartai-Zartanai
• Zahreil
• Planets (part of the entourage of Ruha)
• Shamish (Sun)
• Libat (Venus)
• Nbu (Mercury)
• Sin (Moon)
• Kiwan (Saturn)
• Bil (Jupiter)
• Nirig (Mars)

Important figures

• Adam
• Seth
• Abel
• Enosh
• Noah
• Shem
• Miriai
• Elizabeth
• John the Baptist
• Legendary and prototypical figures
• Dinanukht
• Shishlam
• Ezlat

Concepts

• Kushta (truth)
• Manda (gnosis)
• Laufa (communion)
• Dmuta (image)
• Nishimta (soul)
• Ruha (spirit)
• Mana (mind)
• Adam Kasia (hidden Adam)
• Adam Pagria (bodily Adam)

Objects and symbols

• Drabsha (banner)
• Misha (oil)
• Riha (incense)
• Skandola (talisman seal)

Ritual food and drink

Sacramental drinks

• Mambuha (drinking wateṛ)
• Halalta (rinsing water)
• Hamra (macerated grape juice)

Sacramental foods

• Pihta (flatbread, may be salted on unsalted)
• Fatira (unsalted half-baked biscuit)
• Sa (rolled up flatbread with nuts and raisins)

Sacramental meals

• Dukrana
• Lofani
• Zidqa brikha

Clothing

• Rasta (robe)
• Burzinqa (turban)
• Pandama (mouth-veil)
• Himiana (girdle)
• Margna (staff)
• Klila (wreath)
• Taga (crown)

Rituals and practices

• Masbuta (baptism)
• Tamasha (triple ablution)
• Rishama (minor ablution)
• Masiqta (death mass)
• Qabin (wedding)
• Brakha (prayer)
• Bshuma (formula)
• Sauma (fasting)
• Zidqa (almsgiving)
• Naming

Buildings and structures

• Mandi
• Sabian–Mandaean Mandi of Baghdad, Iraq
• Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi, Australia
• Yahya Yuhana Mandi, Australia
• Wallacia Mandi, Australia
• Shkinta
• Andiruna

Calendar

• Mandaean calendar

Feasts

• Dehwa Rabba (New Year)
• Feast of the Great Shishlam ("Little New Year")
• Dehwa Hanina ("Little Feast")
• Abu al-Haris (commemoration of Noah's flood)
• Parwanaya (5-day intercalary feast)
• Dehwa Daimana (birthday of John the Baptist)

Months

1. Daula
2. Nuna
3. Ê¿mbra
4. Taura
5. á¹¢ilmia
6. Sará¹­ana
7. Aria
8. Å umbulta
9. Qaina
10. Arqba
11. Hiá¹­ia
12. Gadia

Epochs

1. Adam and Eve
2. Ram and Rud
3. Shurbai and Sharhabeil
4. Noah and Nuraita

Language

• Mandaic language
• Neo-Mandaic
• Mandaic alphabet
• Mandaic (Unicode block)

Academic research

• Mandaean studies
• Related disciplines
• Aramaic studies
• Semitic studies
• Middle Eastern studies
• Oriental studies
• Syriac studies
• Assyriology
• Iranian studies
• Religious studies

Publications

• ARAM Periodical (academic journal)

Scholars of Mandaeism

17th century

• Ignatius of Jesus

19th century

• Julius Euting
• Jacques de Morgan
• Theodor Nöldeke
• Matthias Norberg
• Julius Heinrich Petermann
• Nicolas Siouffi
• John George Taylor

20th century

• E. S. Drower
• Mark Lidzbarski
• Rudolf Macúch
• Richard August Reitzenstein
• Kurt Rudolph
• Eric Segelberg
• Edwin M. Yamauchi

21st century

• Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley
• Bogdan Burtea
• Carlos Gelbert
• Charles G. Häberl
• Edmondo Lupieri
• Majid Fandi Al-Mubaraki
• James F. McGrath
• Matthew Morgenstern
• Brikha Nasoraia
• Rafid al-Sabti

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