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From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the marshes

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9004339434 (softcover)
ISBN	9789004339439 (softcover)
Author	Van Bladel, Kevin Thomas
Title	From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the marshes / by Kevin T. Van Bladel
Publisher	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017
Physical desc.	ix, 153 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	Leiden studies in Islam and society 6
Note	Donation.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-144) and index.
Contents	Early contacts between Arab Muslims and Aramaean Mandaeans and the date of Zazay -- Theodore Bar Konay's account of Mandaean origins (circa 792) -- Three sixth-century references to Mandaeans by name in text : "Syriac references" -- On the Kentaeans and their relationship with the Mandaeans -- The account of al-Hasan ibn Bahlul (Bar Bahlul), second half of tenth century -- Identifying Abu 'Ali -- The marshes of the Ṣābians -- Other reports on the Mandaeans after Abu 'Ali -- Back to the question of origins -- Pre-Mandaean Nasoraeans -- The religious environment of Sasanian Iraq -- Mandaeism as a changing tradition -- Appendix 1. Bar Konay on the Kentaeans, Dostaeans, and Nerigaeans, in English -- Appendix 2. Ibn Wasiya on Aramaic dialects.
Subject	Mandaeans -- History
Subject	Mandaeans -- Religion

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