Mandaean Australians are Australians of Mandaean descent or Mandaeans who have Australian citizenship.
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 10,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Sydney and other cities | |
| Languages | |
| Mandaic, Arabic, Persian, English | |
| Religion | |
| Mandaeism |
As of 2023, Australia has the largest Mandaean population in the world, followed by Sweden (which has the largest Mandaean population in Europe) and the United States.[1]
Sydney metropolitan area
editThe Sydney metropolitan area in Australia has the largest Mandaean diaspora community in the world.[2] The community is centered in Greater Western Sydney suburbs such as Fairfield, Liverpool,[3] and Penrith.[4] In Liverpool, the main mandi (Beth Manda) is Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi.[5] The Sabian Mandaean Association of Australia has purchased land by the banks of the Nepean River at Wallacia, New South Wales, where Wallacia Mandi is currently being built.[6] Another mandi in Greater Sydney is Yahya Yuhana Mandi (or Mandi Yehya Youhanna), located in Prestons.[7]
Associations
editThe Sabian Mandaean Association in Australia is the largest Mandaean association in Australia.[8] Religious affairs are managed by the Mandaean Synod of Australia.[9]
Notable people
edit- Salah Choheili (born 1952 in Iran), the current Rishama and head priest of Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi in Liverpool, New South Wales[10]
- Brikha Nasoraia (born 1964 in Iraq), Rishama, professor, and President of the International Mandaean Nasoraean Supreme Council and Nasoraean Mandaean Association[11]
- Khaldoon Majid Abdullah (born 1963 in Iraq), the head priest of Mandi Yehya Youhanna in Prestons, New South Wales
- Majid Fandi Al-Mubaraki, a Mandaean living in Australia who has digitised many Mandaean texts using typesetted Mandaic script[12]
- Yuhana Nashmi, artist, photographer, writer, and archivist[13]
- Peyam Jizan (born 1978 in Iran), a tarmida in Sydney[14][15]
- Sahi Bashikh, a tarmida in Sydney
- Thamir Shamkhi, a tarmida in Sydney
- Asaad Othmani, a tarmida in Sydney
- Waleed Khashan (born 1963 in Iran; Persian: Waleed Ebadeh Farzadeh; Arabic: Waleed Abdul Razzaq), a tarmida in Sydney[16][17]
- Carlos Gelbert (born 1948 in Basra, Iraq), a writer, novelist, and translator in Sydney
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2023). 1800 Years of Encounters with Mandaeans. Gorgias Mandaean Studies. Vol. 5. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-4632-4132-2. ISSN 1935-441X.
- ^ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2010). The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history. Piscataway, N.J: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9.
- ^ Sabian Mandaean Association in Australia.
- ^ Smith, David Maurice (30 July 2015). "An Ancient Baptism in Sydney". Roads & Kingdoms. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ^ Robins, Ian (July 2016). "Album: The Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi, Liverpool, Sydney". The Worlds of Mandaean Priests. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
- ^ "Mandaean Synod of Australia". Welcome to the Mandaean Synod of Australia. 5 July 2005. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ^ Robins, Ian (July 2016). "Album: The Yahya Yuhana Mandi, Sydney". The Worlds of Mandaean Priests. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
- ^ Sabian Mandaean Association in Australia.
- ^ Mandaean Synod of Australia.
- ^ "Rishamma Salah Choheili: July 2016, Chapter 1". The Worlds of Mandaean Priests. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
- ^ Nasoraia, Brikha (2022). The Mandaean Rivers Scroll (Diwan Nahrawatha): an analysis. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-367-33544-1. OCLC 1295213206.
- ^ Mandaean Network.
- ^ "Art Studio Yuhana Nashmi Storytelling through Art". Retrieved 9 December 2021.
- ^ "Tarmida Peyam Jizan, July 2016, Chapter 1". The Worlds of Mandaean Priests. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ^ "PJ Chapter 1 V2". YouTube. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ^ "Tarmida Waleed Khashan: March 2014". The Worlds of Mandaean Priests. 30 September 2023. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ^ "Tarmida Waleed Khashan". YouTube. Retrieved 30 September 2023.