Bibia Mudalal

Bibia Mudalal
Bibia Mudalal
ࡁࡉࡁࡉࡀ ࡌࡅࡃࡀࡋࡀࡋ
Personal
Born	unknown; perhaps c. 1800; Ottoman Empire
Died	1800s
Religion	Mandaeism
Spouse	Ram Zihrun
Occupation	Mandaean priest
Relatives	Yahya Bihram (brother); Negm bar Zahroon (grandson); Abdullah bar Negm (great-grandson); Rafid al-Sabti (great-great-grandson); Ardwan Al-Sabti (great-great-great-grandson)

Bibia Mudalal (Classical Mandaic: ࡁࡉࡁࡉࡀ ࡌࡅࡃࡀࡋࡀࡋ) was a 19th-century Mandaean priest and scribe. She was perhaps the last Mandaean female priest. She is known as the wife of Ram Zihrun.^[1]

Bibia Mudalal's mother was Hawa Simat, and her father was Adam Yuhana, son of Sam.^[2]^: 66 Her father came from the Kamisia and Riš Draz families.^[2]^: 71 She was a scribe who copied the Ginza Rabba and also a priest who was likely initiated before the 1831 cholera epidemic that killed all of the other Mandaean priests.^[1]

Bibia Mudalal was the grandmother of Sheikh Negm (or Sheikh Nejm; born 1892 in Huwaiza, Iran), who copied many manuscripts for E. S. Drower.^[2]

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^ ^a ^b Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443.
^ ^a ^b ^c Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2010). The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history. Piscataway, N.J: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9.

[Buckley_2002-1] Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443.

[Buckley2010-2] Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2010). The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history. Piscataway, N.J: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9.

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