Outline of Mandaeism

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

Notable Mandaeans (non-priests)

• Nasser Sobbi
• Dakhil Shooshtary
• Lamia Abbas Amara
• Abdul Jabbar Abdullah
• Sinan Abdullah
• Zahroun Amara
• Salem Choheili

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

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)

World of Darkness

• World of Darkness
  • Sea of Suf (a dividing sea)
  • Siniawis (a river)
  • Jesus in Mandaeism (Mshiha)

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

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

Publications

• ARAM Periodical (academic journal)

Scholars of Mandaeism