Until 2003, nearly all the world's
Mandaeans lived in Iraq, but the cycles of conflict since the U.S.
Despite the fact that the text presented here is not an actual conversation but a sort of performance aimed at reconstructing a real event, I find it a most representative sample of the way Ahvazi
Mandaeans intimately related to one another communicate amongst themselves in their unique Neo-Aramaic vernacular.
"On behalf of President Hassan Rouhani, I express my deepest condolences over the passing away of the leader of
Mandaeans and I hope that his soul rests in peace," Younesi said.
"I belong to a small pacifist minority, one of the oldest monotheistic religions in the Middle East called
Mandaeans, which are part of an endogenous Aramaic people who suffer persecutions and ethnic cleansing.
Nasir hopes that by telling his family's story he can raise awareness about his family and the
Mandaeans' plight.
Drower (1879-1972) was a self-taught British scholar and novelist who became recognized as an authority on the Middle East generally, but particularly of the
Mandaeans, the last living Gnostic Baptists of Iraq and Iran.
Communities of Christians,
Mandaeans, and Yezidis also exist.
MISSAN / Aswat al-Iraq: The Christians of Missan province on Saturday held a mass over the victims of the attack on the Sayedat al-Najah (Our Lady of Salvation) Church in the presence of a number of Muslims, Sabian
Mandaeans and local officials in the province, according to the representative of the Christian community in Missan.
This applies to the persecution of Assyrian Christians, Coptic Christians, Shabaks,
Mandaeans, Yazidis, and other religious minorities.
They are Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, Assyrians and
Mandaeans. They are all of these but they are not Arabs.
(6) Including 8 seats for minorities (5 for Christians and 1 each for
Mandaeans, Shabak, and Yazidis).
The second-generation Czech Americans holding their annual Fourth of July celebration in the town of Shiner, Texas, eighty miles away, are as intriguing and worth knowing as the Iraqi-Iranian refugee community of
Mandaeans recently settled in an apartment complex on the north side of San Antonio, after years of refugee status in Syria.
Buckley's account of the
Mandaeans, whose theological roots may trace back to the first or second centuries, or Grado G.
