Abdullah bar Negm explained

Honorific Prefix:Sheikh
Abdullah bar Negm
Native Name Lang:myz
Citizenship:Iraqi
Birth Date:20th century
Birth Place:Qal'at Saleh, Iraq
Death Date:2009
Death Place:Nijmegen, Netherlands
Years Active:1947–2009
Occupation:Mandaean priest
Spouse:Sharat (daughter of Abdullah Khaffagi)
Parents:Negm bar Zahroon (father)
Children:Rafid al-Sabti
Relatives:Ram Zihrun (great-grandfather)
Religion:Mandaeism
Ordained:1947
Rishama of Baghdad

Sheikh (Rabbi) Abdullah bar Negm (Arabic: عبدالله ابن نجم; born in Qal'at Saleh, Iraq; died 2009, Nijmegen, Netherlands) was an Iraqi Mandaean priest who served as the Rishama (Mandaean patriarch) of Baghdad, Iraq during the latter half of the 20th century.[1] [2]

Life

Rabbi Negm was born into the Khaffagi (written Mandaic: Kupašia) clan.[2] In 1947, his father, Rabbi Negm bar Zahroon, who had just become a ganzibra that same year, initiated him into the Mandaean priesthood.[2] Abdullah bar Negm's ordination was mentioned in his father's two-page letter to E. S. Drower, which was dated February 4, 1948.[2]

Abdullah bar Negm married Rabbi Abdullah Khaffagi's daughter Šarat (Sharat) from Ahvaz, Iran.[2] Rafid al-Sabti, a tarmida currently residing in Nijmegen, Netherlands, is the son of Rabbi Abdullah.[2]

Abdullah bar Negm became Rishama of Baghdad after Dakhil Aidan's death in 1964.

Rabbi Abdullah bar Negm was known for initiating Sheikh Haithem (now known as Brikha Nasoraia, a ganzibra and professor living in Sydney, Australia) into the priesthood in Iraq, as well as the majority of well-known Mandaean priests in the diaspora.[2]

He later emigrated with his wife to the United Kingdom. After his wife died in the United Kingdom, Abdullah bar Negm moved to Nijmegen, Netherlands to be with his family members. He died in the Netherlands in 2009.[3] [4]

Family

Abdullah bar Negm's grandfather is the son of Ram Zihrun, one of the survivors of the 1831 cholera epidemic that nearly wiped out the Mandaean priesthood.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: الريشما عبدالله الكنزبرا نجم الكنزبرا زهرون .. الأب الروحي الأعلى للصابئة المندائيين . البعد الخامس . 2020-11-09 . 2023-12-14 . ar.
  2. Book: Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen. The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history. Gorgias Press. Piscataway, N.J. 2010. 978-1-59333-621-9.
  3. Web site: Tarmida Khaldoon Majid Abdullah: July 2016, Chapter 2 . The Worlds of Mandaean Priests . 2016-07-01 . 2023-09-27.
  4. Web site: Tarmida Khaldoon Majid Abdulla: Chapter 2 V1 . The Worlds of Mandaean Priests . YouTube . 2023-09-27.
  5. Book: Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen. The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. Oxford University Press. New York. 2002. 0-19-515385-5. 65198443.