Outline of Mandaeism

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Mandaeism
Prophets Adam Seth Noah Shem John the Baptist
Names for adherents Mandaeans Sabians Nasoraeans Gnostics
Scriptures Ginza Rabba Right Ginza Left Ginza Mandaean Book of John Qulasta (list) Haran Gawaita The Wedding of the Great Shishlam The Baptism of Hibil Ziwa Diwan Abatur The Thousand and Twelve Questions Scroll of Exalted Kingship The Coronation of the Great Shishlam Alma Rišaia Rba Alma Rišaia Zuṭa Zihrun Raza Kasia Scroll of the Parwanaya Book of the Zodiac Dmut Kušṭa Scroll of the Rivers Secrets of the Ancestors Scroll of the Ancestors
Priests Rishama Ganzibra Tarmida Shganda
Individual leaders Miriai Shlama beth Qidra Zazai of Gawazta Anush Bar Danqa Yahya Bihram Dakhil Aidan Jabbar Choheili Sattar Jabbar Hilow Najah Choheili Salah Choheili Brikha Nasoraia
Rituals Masbuta Masiqta Tamasha Rishama Kushta Qabin Misha
Ritual food and drink Mambuha Halalta Hamra Pihta Fatira Zidqa brikha Lofani Sa Dukrana
Practices Belief in Oneness of God Daily prayer Baptism Fasting Almsgiving
Objects and symbols Drabsha Rasta Burzinqa Pandama Klila Taga Riha Skandola
Cosmology Hayyi Rabbi World of Light Mana Manda Uthra Manda d-Hayyi Yushamin Abatur Ptahil Hibil Shitil Anush Sam Ziwa Bihram Rabba Adathan Yadathan Shilmai Nidbai Yawar Ziwa Simat Hayyi Yufin-Yufafin Nsab Nbat Gubran Shihlun Urfeil Marfeil Saureil Zihrun Etinsib Ziwa Piriawis Tarwan Yura Yurba Yukashar Ziwa Shahrat Malwasha Nishimta Dinanukht Shishlam Ezlat škina Dmuta Mshunia Kushta Adam kasia Adam pagria Shatrin Laufa Hitfun Tibil World of Darkness Sea of Suf Siniawis Matarta Ruha Ur Krun Gaf Qin Zahreil Anathan Giu Shdum Zartai-Zartanai Hag Mag
Festivals Parwanaya Dehwa Rabba Dehwa d-Shishlam Rabba Dehwa Daimana Dehwa Hanina Abu al-Haris (Ashoriya) Ead Fel
Places Yardena Beth Manda Shkinta Andiruna
Prayers Sidra d-Nishmata Asut Malkia Rushuma Rahma Tabahatan Shumhata Bshuma
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Mandaeism.

• Mandaeans

• Mandaean Americans
• Mandaean Australians
• Mandaeans in Sweden

• Essenes
• Gnostics
• Sabians
• Nasoraeans

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

• Mandaean name
• Family names
  • Choheili
  • Khaffagi
  • Manduia
  • Khamisi

• 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

• 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

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

• List of Mandaic manuscripts

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

• Qulasta (prayerbook)
  • List of Qulasta prayers
  • Codex Marshall 691
  • Sidra d-Nishmata
  • Niana
  • Rushma
  • Asut Malkia
  • Rahma
  • Tabahatan
  • Shumhata

• 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

• Haran Gawaita

• Incantation bowls
• Lead rolls
• MS Drower 43

• Drower Collection
• Rbai Rafid Collection

• Mandaean cosmology

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

• 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)

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

• 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)

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

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

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

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

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

• Dukrana
• Lofani
• Zidqa brikha

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

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

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

• Mandaean calendar

• 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)

• Daula
• Nuna
• ʿmbra
• Taura
• Ṣilmia
• Sarṭana
• Aria
• Šumbulta
• Qaina
• Arqba
• Hiṭia
• Gadia

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

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

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

• ARAM Periodical (academic journal)

• Ignatius of Jesus

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

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

• 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