The Mandaeans
Subtitle: The Last Gnostics
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: November 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780802833501
Subjects: Gnosticism; Religion; Christianity - Anglican; Christianity - Anglicanism
First sentence: Soon after the Shah of Persia had been chased out and power had passed to the Ayatollah Khomeini's revolutionaries, the Mandaeans of Iran, having enjoyed complete tranquility under the secular and pro-Western government of Reza Pahlevi, thought it wise to take a precautionary measure in defense of their right to religious freedom under the new regime.