Bibia Mudalal
19th-century Mandaean female priest and scribe
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Bibia Mudalal (Classical Mandaic: ࡁࡉࡁࡉࡀ ࡌࡅࡃࡀࡋࡀࡋ) was a 19th-century Mandaean priest and scribe. She was perhaps the last Mandaean female priest. She is known as the wife of Ram Zihrun.[1]
Bibia Mudalal | |
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ࡁࡉࡁࡉࡀ ࡌࡅࡃࡀࡋࡀࡋ | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | unknown; perhaps c. 1800 |
| Died | 1800s |
| Spouse | Ram Zihrun |
| Occupation | Mandaean priest |
| Relatives | Yahya Bihram (brother) Negm bar Zahroon (grandson) Abdullah bar Negm (great-grandson) Rafid al-Sabti (great-great-grandson) Ardwan Al-Sabti (great-great-great-grandson) |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Mandaeism |
Bibia Mudalal's mother was Hawa Simat, and her father was Adam Yuhana, son of Sam.[2]: 66 Her father came from the Kamisia and Riš Draz families.[2]: 71 She was a scribe who copied the Ginza Rabba and also a priest who was likely initiated before the 1831 cholera epidemic that killed all of the other Mandaean priests.[1]
Bibia Mudalal was the grandmother of Sheikh Negm (or Sheikh Nejm; born 1892 in Huwaiza, Iran), who copied many manuscripts for E. S. Drower.[2]
