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 Manduia
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 Rišaia Rba Alma Rišaia Zuṭa 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 Kušṭa 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 Daula Nuna ʿmbra Taura Ṣilmia Sarṭana Aria Šumbulta Qaina Arqba Hiṭia Gadia
Epochs Adam and Eve Ram and Rud Shurbai and Sharhabeil 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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