Outline of Mandaeism explained

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
  • Khamisi

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
  • Shumhata

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

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