Mandaeism or Mandaeanism HAVE YOU EVER HEARED ABOUT IT?!
Mandaeism or Mandaeanism is a monotheistic and gnostic religion with an unequivocally dualistic cosmology. Its disciples, the Mandaeans, worship Adam, Abel, Seth, Enos, Noah, Shem, Aram, and particularly John the Baptist. The Mandaeans have been considered as a real part of the Semites and talk a tongue of Eastern Aramaic known as Mandaic. The name 'Mandaean' is said to originate from the Aramaic Manda signifying "information", as does Greek gnosis. Within the Middle East, yet outside of their locale, the Mandaeans are all the more usually known as the Ṣubba (solitary: Ṣubbī) or Sabians. The term Ṣubba is gotten from the Aramaic root identified with immersion, the neo-Mandaic is Ṣabi. In Islam, the "Sabians" (Arabic: الصَّابِئُون, aṣ-Ṣābiʾūn) is portrayed a few times in the Quran as People of the Book, close by Jews and Christians. Sporadically, Mandaeans are classified "Christians of Saint John".
As per most researchers, Mandaeaism began at some point in the initial three centuries AD, in either southwestern Mesopotamia or the Syro-Palestinian area. However, a few researchers take the view that Mandaeanism is more seasoned and dates from pre-Christian times.
The religion has been drilled basically around the lower Karun, Euphrates and Tigris and the streams that encompass the Shatt-al-Arab conduit, some portion of southern Iraq and Khuzestan Province in Iran. There are believed to be somewhere in the range of 60,000 and 70,000 Mandaeans worldwide.[8] Until the Iraq War, practically every one of them lived in Iraq. Many Mandaean Iraqis have since fled their nation as a result of the strife made by the 2003 intrusion of Iraq and consequent occupation by U.S. military, and the related ascent in partisan savagery by Muslim extremists.By 2007, the number of inhabitants in Mandaeans in Iraq had tumbled to roughly 5,000