Mandaeism

Manichaeism: 3rd century ditheistic gnosticism that may have been influenced by Mandaeism.

A place of worship for followers of Mandaeism.

John is revered in Mandaeism.

In Iran, there are members of the Mandaeism sect of Gnosticism.

The first Iranian website about Mandaeism.

There is significant difference between the Aramaic spoken by Jews, Christians, and Mandaeism.

Books 1 & 2, prose texts, contain two versions of a very stylized history of creation and of Mandaeism.

However, in the 1960s the position of scholars of Mandaeism settled on an early Jerusalem, but not pre-Christian, origin.

Kurt Rudolph, Mandaeism.

Gnosticism, Mandaeism, and merkabah (early Jewish mystic beliefs)

John is regarded as a prophet in Christianity, Islam, the Bahá'í Faith, and Mandaeism.

Kurt Rudolph (born 3 April 1929) is a German researcher of Gnosticism and Mandaeism.

Classical Mandaic (literary Aramaic of Mandaeism, 1st century AD)

Aram son of Shem is recognized as a prophet in Mandaeism and as an Islamic prophet.

(See Nazarene (sect), Mandaeism)

The Gnostic Imagination: Gnosticism, Mandaeism, and Merkabah Mysticism (1995)

The term Mandaeism comes from Classical Mandaic Mandaiia and appears in Neo-Mandaic as Mandeyānā.

Early religious concepts and terminologies recur in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and "Jordan" has been the name of every baptismal water in Mandaeism.

Originally, Mandaeism was practiced mainly in the countries around the lower Euphrates and Tigris and the rivers that surround the Shatt-al-Arab waterway.

Mandaeism: A gnostic monotheism of (at the latest) the 1st century CE observed Mandā d-Heyyi - "Knowledge of Life".

There are three grades of priesthood in Mandaeism: the tarmidia "disciples" (Neo-Mandaic tarmidānā), the ganzibria "treasurers" (from Old Persian ganza-bara "id."

Mandaeans are an ethnoreligious group indigenous to the alluvial plain of southern Mesopotamia and are exclusively followers of Mandaeism, a Gnostic religion, originated in the Middle East.

Iranian religions (not listed below due to overlaps) originated in Iran and include Zoroastrianism, Yazdânism, Ahl-e Haqq and historical traditions of Gnosticism (Mandaeism, Manichaeism).

And historically speaking, the Mandaeism is one of the ancient religions of Mesopotamia and one of the earlier known monothestic religions, along with Abrahamic faiths, and Zoroastrianism.

The Middle East is also the historical origin of major religions including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as the less common Baha'i faith, Mandaeism, Druze faith and others.