# Mandaeism · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow

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Mandaeism
Sabianism; the religion of the Nasoraeans
c.1st–2nd c. CE – present · Esoteric / Occult · Living · Iraq and Iran historically; now largely diaspora
IV. THE CLASSICAL & IMPERIAL WORLD — c.200 BCE – 500 CE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.1st–2nd c. CE Origins, probably in Palestine or Jordan among baptising sects, followed by migration to Mesopotamia.
- c.7th c. CE The Arab conquest; Mandaeans are classed as Sabians, a protected People of the Book named in the Quran, which saves them.
- 1290s CE First European contact; missionaries call them Christians of St John.
- 1991–2003 CE Saddam Hussein drains the southern marshes; the community is displaced.
- 2003–present After the Iraq war the community collapses. Targeted killings, kidnappings and forced conversions cut the Iraqi population by roughly 90%. Most survivors are now in Sweden, Australia, the United States and Jordan.
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