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�…

" Although it is one of the few religious traditions that can legitimately claim a continuous
2000-year literary history, there has been very little written about the Mandaeans in English�…

To-day the little community of the Mandaeans consists of no more than about 15 000
believers. For many centuries they have lived in the marshy region of the Lower Euphrates�…

Mandaeans, an ethno-religious group mostly living in Iraq and Iran, are bearers of a Gnostic
tradition based on the scriptures written in Madaic. As a small minority living under the threat�…

The evidence for a history of Mandaeism during the period of Late Antiquity (3rd–8th c. CE)
and its evolution as a religious tradition prior to and immediately following the advent of�…

The Mandaeans are the members of an ethno-religious group living in Iran and Iraq. The
religion of the Mandaeans is a written tradition and is the main reference of their identity. As�…

In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the single most influential religious
organization, including among its numbers the nation's president. Yet little is known of this�…

The purpose of my paper is to draw attention to the fact that old Saami religion is not entirely
extinct. For example, sacrificial traditions, continued to live on long after the arrival of�…

ONE way to obtain a sense of Mandaeism's life through the ages is systematically to study
the Mandaean colophons, that is, the extensive scribal copyist lineages and postscripts�…

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