List of Mandaean priests

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This article contains a list of historical and active Mandaean priests, all of whom have the ranks of Rishama, Ganzibra or Tarmida.

Mandaean priestly families include the Manduia (Manduwi), Kupašia (Khaffagi), Kuhailia (Choheili), and Durakia (Dorragi) families, all of which can be traced back to the mid-1400s.^[1]: 52

Most of the following list of currently active Mandaean priests is based on Buckley (2023)^[2] and from The Worlds of Mandaean Priests website curated by Christine Robins, Yuhana Nashmi et al.^[3]

• Rishamma Sattar Jabbar Hilow, Iraq
• Rishamma Salah Choheili, Australia
• Rishamma Professor Brikha Nasoraia, Australia
• Ganzibra Najah Choheili, Iran
• Ganzibra Khaldoon Majid Abdullah, Australia
• Ganzibra Waleed Khashan, Australia
• Ganzibra Salwan Alkhamas (or Salwan Shakir Khamas), Sweden
• Ganzibra Salam Ghaiad, Sweden
• Ganzibra Walid Abdul Razzak, Sweden
• Ganzibra Taleb Dorragi, Iran
• Ganzibra Walid Ebadfardzadeh, United States
• Tarmida Bassam Fadhil al-Haider, United States
• Tarmida Asaad Muttar al-Othmani, Australia
• Tarmida Thamir Shamkhi, Australia
• Tarmida Sahi Bashikh, Australia
• Tarmida Peyam Jizan, Australia
• Tarmida Saleem al-Zuhairi, Australia
• Tarmida Yuhana Nashmi, Australia
• Tarmida Qais Edan (Qais Aidan), Sweden
• Tarmida Rafid Al-Sabti, Netherlands
• Tarmida Behram Khafajy (Bihram Khaffagi), Iran
• Tarmida Sam Zahrooni, Iran

This list of historical Mandaean priests, along with the accompanying notes, is primarily adapted from Buckley (2010).^{[1]: 349–355} The majority of the names are from colophons (tarik ࡕࡀࡓࡉࡊ) in Mandaean texts that provide detailed information about the scribes who had transcribed them. Note that written Mandaic br means "son of," while written Mandaic pt means "daughter."^[1]