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

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

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 Hilo
 * Yuhana Nashmi
 * Sahi Bashikh
 * Brikha Nasoraia
 * Rafid al-Sabti

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

 * Qolasta (prayerbook)
 * Codex Marshall 691
 * Niana
 * Rushma
 * Asiet Malkia
 * Rahma
 * Tabahatan
 * Shumhata

Ritual texts

 * The Wedding of the Great Shishlam
 * Scroll of the Parwanaya
 * Scroll of the Great Baptism
 * Scroll of the Ancestors
 * Zihrun Raza Kasia

Esoteric texts

 * The Thousand and Twelve Questions
 * Scroll of Exalted Kingship
 * The Coronation of the Great Shishlam
 * Alma Rišaia Rba
 * Alma Rišaia Zuṭa
 * 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

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)

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
 * 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

 * 1) Adam and Eve
 * 2) Ram and Rud
 * 3) Shurbai and Sharhabeil
 * 4) 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)

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
 * James F. McGrath
 * Matthew Morgenstern
 * Brikha Nasoraia
 * Rafid al-Sabti