Bibia Mudalal

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.

Bibia Mudalal
ࡁࡉࡁࡉࡀ ࡌࡅࡃࡀࡋࡀࡋ
Personal
Bornunknown; perhaps c.1800
Died1800s
ReligionMandaeism
SpouseRam Zihrun
OccupationMandaean priest
RelativesYahya Bihram (brother)
Negm bar Zahroon (grandson)
Abdullah bar Negm (great-grandson)
Rafid al-Sabti (great-great-grandson)
Ardwan Al-Sabti (great-great-great-grandson)

Bibia Mudalal's mother was Hawa Simat, and her father was Adam Yuhana, son of Sam.:66 Her father came from the Kamisia and Riš Draz families.: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.

Bibia Mudalal was the grandmother of Sheikh Negm (or Sheikh Nejm; born 1892 in Huwaiza, Iran), who copied many manuscripts for E. S. Drower.

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