From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-33943-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 154 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

Reihe: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society

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-lived new faiths, such as Kentaeism, began in a period of state-sponsored persecution of Babylonian paganism. The Mandaeans would survive to become one of many groups known as Sabians by their Muslim neighbors. Rather than seeking to elucidate the history of Mandaeism in terms of other religions to which it can be related, this study approaches the religion through the history of its social contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bladel, Kevin T van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
1. Early Contacts between Arab Muslims and Aramaean Mandaeans and the Date of Zazay
2. Theodore bar Konay’s Account of Mandaean Origins (circa 792)
3. Three Sixth-Century References to Mandaeans by Name
4. On the Kentaeans and Their Relationship with the Mandaeans
5. The Account of al-Hasan ibn Bahlul (Bar Bahlul), second half of tenth century
6. Identifying Abu 'Ali
7. The Marshes of the Sabians
8. Other Reports on the Mandaeans after Abu 'Ali
9. Back to the Question of Origins
10. Pre-Mandaean Nasoraeans
11. The Religious Environment of Sasanian Iraq
12. Mandaeism as a Changing Tradition
Appendix 1. Bar Konay on the Kentaeans, Dostaeans, and Nerigaeans, in English
Appendix 2. Ibn Wahšiya on Aramaic Dialects
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin T. van Bladel (Ph.D. 2004, Yale University), is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University. He is the author of many studies on the classical Near East including The Arabic Hermes (Oxford 2009).