From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the marshes /
This historical study argues that the Mandaean religion originated under Sasanid rule in the fifth century, not earlier as has been widely accepted. It analyzes primary sources in Syriac, Mandaic, and Arabic to clarify the early history of Mandaeism. This religion, along with several other, shorter-...
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Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2017.
Series:
Leiden Studies in Islam and Society
06.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004325999.
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Call Number: BT1405 .V36 2017
- Front Matter
- Introduction
- Early Contacts between Arab Muslims and Aramaean Mandaeans and the Date of Zazay
- Theodore Bar Konay's Account of Mandaean Origins (circa 792)
- Three Sixth-Century Syriac References to Mandaeans by Name
- On the Kentaeans and Their Relationship with the Mandaeans
- The Account of al-Ḥasan ibn Bahlūl (Bar Bahlul), Second Half of Tenth Century
- Identifying Abū ʿAlī
- The Marshes of the Ṣābians
- Other Reports on the Mandaeans after Abū ʿAlī
- Back to the Question of Origins
- Pre-Mandaean Nāṣoraeans
- The Religious Environment of Sasanian Iraq
- Mandaeism as a Changing Tradition
- Bar Konay on the Kentaeans, Dostaeans, and Nerigaeans, in English
- Ibn Waḥšīya on Aramaic Dialects
- Bibliography
- Index.