Mandæism

A form of Mandaeism — A monotheistic religion of the Iraqi region with a strongly dualistic and gnostic worldview, whose adherents (the Mandaeans) revere Adam and other Biblical figures, especially John the Baptist.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. obsoleteObsolete typography of Mandaeism.

    In the form of an Imam doctrine of successive reincarnations up to that of the Great Imam, it is the central thought of Mandæism, Manichæism and of at least one branch of Islam.

    1933, Benjamin Wisner Bacon, edited by Carl Hermann Kraeling, The Gospel of the Hellenists, New York: Henry Holt and Company, page 321
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