Ram Zihrun
Ram Zihrun | |
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ࡓࡀࡌ ࡆࡉࡄࡓࡅࡍ | |
| Title | Ganzibra |
| Personal | |
| Born | late 1700s |
| Died | 1800s |
| Religion | Mandaeism |
| Spouse | Bibia Mudalal (Yahya Bihram's sister) |
| Parent | Sam Bihram (father) |
| Known for | Revival of the Mandaean priesthood |
| Other names | Ram Zihrun bar Sam Bihram Sheikh Abdullah |
| Occupation | Mandaean priest |
| Relatives | Yahya Bihram (cousin) Negm bar Zahroon (grandson) Abdullah bar Negm (great-grandson) Rafid al-Sabti (great-great-grandson) Ardwan Al-Sabti (great-great-great-grandson) |
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Ram Zihrun (
Mandaean manuscripts.[1]
Ram Zihrun was also informally known by Mandaeans as Sheikh Abdullah.[2]: 183
Early life
Ram Zihrun was born sometime during the 18th century as the son of the Mandaean priest Sam Bihram (
Khaffagi) families.[2]
Mandaean priesthood revival
Ram Zihrun and his younger cousin
šgandas (priest assistants) who were the surviving sons of deceased priests during the aftermath of the 1831 cholera epidemic. Together, the two of them went on to revive the Mandaean priesthood by initiating each other as tarmida (junior priests), and later as ganzibra (high priests), in Suq eš-Šuyuk, Iraq.[2] As a result, Mandaean manuscripts mention Yahya Bihram as the son of Ram Zihrun, since the priestly initiators of priests and scribes are typically listed as "fathers" in Mandaean spiritual genealogical lineages, rather than their biological fathers. At Suq eš-Šuyuk, they also initiated 13 other yalufa (learned Mandaeans) as priests.[3]
Afterwards, Ram Zihrun served as a Khuzestan.[3]
Ram Zihrun died sometime in the mid or late 1800s.
Family
Ram Zihrun's wife
Huwaiza, Iran in 1892, lived in Khorramshahr during his early youth, and moved to Qal'at Saleh, Iraq in 1914.[2]
Ram Zihrun was also the grandfather of Sheikh Abdullah Khaffagi (or Abdullah Khaffaji) in Ahvaz.[3]
Work as scribe
Ram Zihrun personally copied a few of the Mandaic manuscripts that are currently held in the
Drower Collection (abbreviated DC), a collection of Mandaic manuscripts collected by E. S. Drower during the early 1900s. These include the DC 7 (Scroll of the Rivers), 9 (Haran Gawaita), and 22 (Ginza Rabba) manuscripts.[2]
See also
- Zihrun
- Yahya Bihram
- Negm bar Zahroon
- List of Mandaean priests (includes many of Ram Zihrun's relatives)
References
- doi:10.1086/463572.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9.
- ^ OCLC 65198443.
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