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    Mandaeans. There are about 2,500 Mandaeans in Jordan, the largest Mandaean community in the Middle East outside of Iraq and Iran. The name "Mandaean"...
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    Mandaeism (redirect from Mandaeanism)
    : 4 : 1  Its adherents, the Mandaeans, revere Adam, Abel, Seth, Enos, Noah, Shem, Aram, and especially John the Baptist. Mandaeans consider Adam, Seth, Noah...
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  • (ࡌࡀࡋࡅࡀࡔࡀ) in Mandaic. Mandaean birth names are secular names that are given at birth and are used by non-Mandaeans to refer to Mandaeans in everyday life....
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  • creation in the Mandaean holy book in the Ginza Rba (PhD). University College London. Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and...
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  • before the Muslim authorities to have the Mandaeans recognized as a People of the Book. The contemporary Mandaean priesthood can trace its immediate origins...
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  • with the Mandaeans in southern Iraq during the 1850s, where he worked Yahya Bihram as his primary informant. In the early 20th century, Mandaean studies...
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  • Encounters with Mandaeans. Gorgias Mandaean Studies. Vol. 5. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-4632-4132-2. ISSN 1935-441X. Mandaean calendar from...
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    Therefore, Mandaeans are baptized repeatedly during their lives. Mandaeans consider John the Baptist to have been a Nasoraean Mandaean.: 3  John is...
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    Mandaean Australians are Australians of Mandaean descent or Mandaeans who have Australian citizenship. As of 2023, Australia has the largest Mandaean...
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  • Sabians (redirect from Mandaean Sabians)
    concentrations of Mandaeans were in Amarah, Nasiriyah and Basra. Besides these southern regions and Ahvaz in Iran, large numbers of Mandaeans were found in...
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  • Mandean (redirect from Mandaean)
    Mandean or Mandaean may refer to: Mandaeism, a Gnostic religion Mandaeans, the ethnoreligious group who follow the Gnostic religion Mandean, the language...
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    Göttingen, 1961; Kurt Rudolph, Mandaeans (Leiden: Brill, 1967); Christa Müller-Kessler, Sacred Meals and Rituals of the Mandaeans”, in David Hellholm, Dieter...
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  • Mandaeans in the United States refers to people born in or residing in the United States of Mandaean origin, or those considered to be ethnic Mandaeans...
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    Several thousand Swedish Mandaeans were granted asylum status as refugees from persecution in Iraq and Syria. The first Mandaeans came to Sweden in the 1970s...
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  •  'Messiah') is mentioned in Mandaean texts such as the Ginza Rabba, Mandaean Book of John, and Haran Gawaita. Mandaeans consider Miriai, a convert from...
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  • receive and accommodate visitors. Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi Yahya Yuhana Mandi Mandaeans in Iraq, in the Arabic Wikipedia Baghdad Governorate (2019-07-20). "محافظ...
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    Asiatic Society, 1949. Ethel Stefana Drower: Mandaeans. Liturgy and Ritual. The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans. Translated with notes. Leiden: E. J. Brill...
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  • currently serves as the head of the Mandaean Council of Ahvaz. The council has a 13-member board of directors. Mandaeans in Ahvaz and nearby towns nominate...
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  • reconstructing Mandaean history. Piscataway, N.J: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9. Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2023). 1800 Years of Encounters with Mandaeans. Gorgias...
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  • (2005). The Mandaeans and the Jews. Edensor Park, NSW: Living Water Books. ISBN 0-9580346-2-1. OCLC 68208613. Masco, Maire (2012). The Mandaeans: Gnostic...
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    Drabsha (redirect from Mandaean cross)
    used by Mandaeans Temple menorah, represents light of God and symbolizes creation in seven days Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient...
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    refer to righteous Mandaeans, i.e., Mandaean priests (comparable to the concept of pneumatikoi in Gnosticism). As Nasoraeans, Mandaeans believe that they...
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    Baptizer' Iuhana Maṣbana) is considered the greatest prophet of the Mandaeans. Mandaeans also refer to him as Yuhana bar Zakria (John, son of Zechariah)....
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  • day of Sarṭana, which is the 6th month of the Mandaean calendar. Abu al-Haris is celebrated by Mandaeans as a day of remembrance commemorating the drowned...
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  • Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans. Leiden: E. J. Brill. Bukovec, Predrag; Bladel, Kevin Van (2018). "Review: From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes"...
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    Liverpool, Sydney". The Worlds of Mandaean Priests. Retrieved 6 November 2021. "الشيخ دخيل الشيخ عيدان". mandaeans.org. 2008-10-07. Archived from the...
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  • Greek, Gnostic, Guanche, Hindu, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Japanese, Mandaean, Mapuche, Moabite, Native American,[clarification needed] Persian, Phoenician...
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    mostly Arabs, as well as Kurds, Turkmen, Assyrians, Armenians, Yazidis, Mandaeans, Persians and Shabakis with similarly diverse geography and wildlife....
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  • Anush bar Danqa (category Mandaeans from the Sasanian Empire)
    was a 7th-century Mandaean priest who was active around the Muslim conquest of Persia. Around 638 AD, he led a delegation of Mandaeans before the Arab Muslim...
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  • Essenes (category Mandaeans)
    Nasoraeans, Mandaeans believe that they constitute the true congregation of bnai nhura meaning 'Sons of Light', a term used by the Essenes.: 50  Mandaean scripture...
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