Bibia Mudalal | |
Native Name: | ࡁࡉࡁࡉࡀ ࡌࡅࡃࡀࡋࡀࡋ |
Native Name Lang: | myz |
Birth Date: | unknown; perhaps |
Birth Place: | Ottoman Empire |
Death Date: | 1800s |
Occupation: | Mandaean priest |
Spouse: | Ram Zihrun |
Relatives: | Yahya Bihram (brother) Negm bar Zahroon (grandson) Abdullah bar Negm (great-grandson) Rafid al-Sabti (great-great-grandson) Ardwan Al-Sabti (great-great-great-grandson) |
Religion: | Mandaeism |
Bibia Mudalal (ࡁࡉࡁࡉࡀ ࡌࡅࡃࡀࡋࡀࡋ) was a 19th-century Mandaean priest and scribe. She was perhaps the last Mandaean female priest. She is known as the wife of Ram Zihrun.[1]
Bibia Mudalal's mother was Hawa Simat, and her father was Adam Yuhana, son of Sam. Her father came from the Kamisia and Riš Draz families.[2] She was a scribe who copied the Ginza Rabba and also a priest who was likely initiated before the 1831 cholera epidemic that killed all of the other Mandaean priests.[1]
Bibia Mudalal was the grandmother of Sheikh Negm (or Sheikh Nejm; born 1892 in Huwaiza, Iran), who copied many manuscripts for E. S. Drower.[2]