# Outline of Mandaeism

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

* 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