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"... and the Sabians",Quran5:69[a]

TheSabians,sometimes also spelledSabaeansorSabeans,are a mysterious religious group mentioned three times in theQuran(asالصابئونal-Ṣābiʾūn,in later sourcesالصابئةal-Ṣābiʾa),[1]where it is implied that they belonged to the 'People of the Book' (ahl al-kitāb).[2]Their original identity, which seems to have been forgotten at an early date,[3]has been called an "unsolved Quranic problem".[4]Modern scholars have variously identified them asMandaeans,[5]Manichaeans,[6]Sabaeans,[7]Elchasaites,[8]Archontics,[9]ḥunafāʾ(either as a type ofGnosticsor as "sectarians" ),[10]or as adherents of theastral religionofHarran.[11]Some scholars believe that it is impossible to establish their original identity with any degree of certainty.[12]

At least from the ninth century on, the Quranic epithet 'Sabian' was claimed by various religious groups who sought recognition by the Muslim authorities as a People of the Book deserving of legal protection (dhimma).[13]Among those are theSabians of Harran,adherents of a poorly understoodpagan religioncentered in the upper Mesopotamian city ofHarran,who were described bySyriacChristianheresiographersasstar worshippers.[14]These Harranian Sabians practiced an old Semitic form ofpolytheism,[15]combined with a significant amount ofHellenisticelements.[16]Most of the historical figures known in the ninth–eleventh centuries asal-Ṣābiʼwere probably either members of this Harranian religion or descendants of such members, most notably the Harranian astronomers and mathematiciansThabit ibn Qurra(died 901) andal-Battani(died 929).[17]

From the early tenth century on, the term 'Sabian' was applied to purported 'pagans' of all kinds, such as to the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, or toBuddhists.[18]Ibn Wahshiyya(diedc. 930) used the term for a type of Mesopotamian paganism that preserved elements of ancientAssyro-Babylonian religion.[19]

Today in Iraq andIran,the name 'Sabian' is normally applied to theMandaeans,a modern ethno-religious group who follow the teachings of their prophetJohn the Baptist(Yahya ibn Zakariya). These Mandaean Sabians, whose most important religious ceremony isbaptism,[20]aremonotheistic,and their holy book is known as theGinza Rabba.[21]: 1 Mandaean Sabian prophets includeAdam,Seth,Noah,Shemand John the Baptist with Adam being the founder of the religion and John being the greatest andfinal prophet.[22]: 45 

Etymology[edit]

The etymology of the Arabic wordṢābiʾis disputed. According to one interpretation, it is theactive participleof the Arabicrootṣ-b-ʾ('to turn to'), meaning 'converts'.[23]Another widely cited hypothesis, first proposed byDaniel Chwolsohnin 1856,[24]is that it is derived from anAramaicroot meaning 'to dip' or 'to baptize'.[25]

The interpretation as 'converts' was cited by various medieval Arabiclexicographersandphilologists,[26]and is supported by a tradition preserved byIbn Hisham(died 834, editor of the earliest survivingbiography of Muhammad) relating that the termṣābiʾawas applied toMuhammadand the early Muslims by some of their enemies (perhaps by the Jews),[27]who regarded them as having 'turned' away from the proper religion and towards heresy. As such, the term may have beenreappropriatedby early Muslims, first as a self-designation and then to refer to other people from aJewish Christianbackground who 'turned' to the new revelations offered by Muhammad. In the context of the Quranic passages in which the term occurs, it may thus refer to all people who leave their faiths, finding fault in them, but who have yet to come to Islam. In this sense, the termṣābiʾwould be similar in meaning to the termḥanīf.[28]

Understanding the term as a reference to 'dippers' or 'baptizers' fits best with those interpretations that identify the Quranic Sabians with baptist sects like theElchasaitesor theMandaeans.[26]However, this etymology has also been used to explain Ibn Hisham's story about Muhammad and his followers being called 'Sabians', which would then be a reference to theritual washingperformed by Muslims before prayer, a practice resembling those of various baptist sects.[29]

Other etymologies have also been proposed. According toJudah Segal,the term referred toṢōbā,aSyriacname forNisibis,a city in Upper Mesopotamia.[30]It has also been related toHebrewṣābā',"[heavenly] host",implyingstar worshippers.[31]

Sabians of the Quran[edit]

In the Quran[edit]

First part ofQuran5:69,Maghrebimanuscript,c. 1250–1350

TheQuranbriefly mentions the Sabians in three places, inSūrat al-Baqara(2:62), inSūrat al-Māʾida(5:69), and inSūrat al-Ḥajj(22:17).[15]

"Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the Christians, and the Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the Last day and does good, they shall have their reward from their Lord, and there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve."[Quran2:62(Translatedby Shakir)]

"Surely those who believe and those who are Jews and the Sabians and the Christians whoever believes in Allah and the last day and does good– they shall have no fear nor shall they grieve."[Quran5:69(Translatedby Shakir)]

"Surely those who believe and those who are Jews and the Sabians and the Christians and the Magians and those who associate (others with Allah)– surely Allah will decide between them on the day of resurrection; surely Allah is a witness over all things."[Quran22:17(Translatedby Shakir)]

The two first verses have generally been interpreted to mean that the Sabians belonged to thePeople of the Book(ahl al-kitāb,cf. 5:68),[32]just like the Jews, the Christians and –only according to some interpretations– theZoroastrians(the 'Magians',al-majūs).[b]However, neither of the three verses give any indication of who the Sabians might have been or what they may have believed.[26]According toFrançois de Blois,the fact that they are classified in the Quran amongAbrahamicmonotheists renders it unlikely that they were either the polytheists of Harran or the Mandaeans, the latter of whom defined themselves in opposition to the Abrahamic prophetic tradition.[26]

In later sources[edit]

Islamic[edit]

In some Sunnihadiths,they are described as converts toIslam.[33]

At the beginning of theMuslim conquest of Mesopotamia,the leader of the Mandaeans, Anush bar Danqa, appeared before Muslim authorities showing them a copy of theGinza Rabba,the Mandaean holy book, and proclaiming the chief Mandaean prophet to beJohn the Baptist,who is also mentioned in theQuranby the nameYahya ibn Zakariya.Consequently, the Muslim caliphates provided them acknowledgement as the Quranic Sabians and People of the Book.[34]: 5 

Other classical Arabic sources include theFihristofibn al-Nadim(c. 987), who mentions theMogtasilah( "Mughtasila", or "self-ablutionists" ), a sect of Sabians in southern Mesopotamia who are identified with the Mandaeans or Elcesaites.[35][22]: 35 [36]

Al-Biruni(writing at the beginning of the eleventh century CE) said that the ' "real Sabians'" were "the remnants of the Jewish tribes who remained inBabyloniawhen the other tribes left it forJerusalemin the days ofCyrusandArtaxerxes.According toE. S. Drower(1937) these remaining tribes... adopted a system mixed up of Magism andJudaism.'[37]

According to Abu Yusuf Absha al-Qadi, Caliphal-Ma'munofBaghdadin 830 CE stood with his army at the gates ofHarranand questioned the Harranians about what protected religion they belonged to. As they were neither Muslim, Christian, Jewish or Magian, the caliph told them they were non-believers. He said they would have to become Muslims, or adherents of one of the other religions recognized by the Quran by the time he returned from hiscampaign against the Byzantinesor he would kill them.[38]The Harranians consulted with a lawyer, who suggested that they find their answer in the Quran II.59, which said that Sabians were tolerated. It was unknown what the sacred text intended by "Sabian" and so they took the name.[39]

The pagan people of Harran identified themselves with the Sabians in order to fall under the protection of Islam.[40][41]: 111–113 : 5 The Harranians may have identified themselves as Sabians in order to retain their religious beliefs.[40]: 5 Multiple medieval sources state that the Harranian Sabians acknowledgedHermes Trismegistusas their prophet.[42]Validation of Hermes as a prophet comes from his identification asIdris(i.e.Enoch) in the Quran (19.57 and 21.85).[43]This has often led modern scholars to think of the Harranian Sabians asHermeticists,though there is in fact no meaningful evidence for this.[42]

Furthermore, this account of the Harranian Sabians does not fit with the existence of earlier records making reference to Sabians in Harran. Usamah ibn Ayd, writing before 770 CE (his year of death), already referred to a city of Sabians in the region where Harran lies.[44]The jurist Abu Hanifa, who died in 767 CE, is recorded to have discussed the legal status of Harranian Sabians with two of his disciples.[45]

Other[edit]

Maimonides[edit]

The Jewish scholarMaimonides(1125–1204) translated the bookThe Nabataean Agriculture,which he considered an accurate record of the beliefs of the Sabians, who believed in idolatrous practices "and other superstitions mentioned in the Nabatean Agriculture."[46]He provided considerable detail about the pagan Sabians in hisGuide for the Perplexed(completed 1186–1190).[47]

Baháʼí writings[edit]

The Sabians are also mentioned inthe literatureof theBaháʼí Faith.These references are generally brief, describing two groups of Sabians: those "who worship idols in the name of the stars, who believed their religion derived fromSethandIdris"(Harranian Sabians), and others" who believed in the son of Zechariah (John the Baptist) and didn't accept the advent of the son of Mary (Jesus Christ) "(Mandaeans).[48]'Abdu'l-Bahábriefly describes Seth as one of the "sons of Adam".[49]Bahá'u'lláhin aTabletidentifies Idris with Hermes Trismegistus.[50]He does not, however, specifically name Idris as the prophet of the Sabians. Sometimes referred to asSabeans,this religious group has been mentioned in theBaha’i Faithamong the many early religions of the previous dispensations. In theBaha’i Writing,Secrets of Divine Civilizationby`Abdu’l-Bahá’the Sabeans are attributed with possibly being the source of contributing some foundations to the science oflogic.[51]

Modern scholars[edit]

Daniel Chwolson[edit]

According toDaniel Chwolson'sDie Ssabier und der Ssabismus(1856), Chwolson differentiates between the pagan pseudo-Sabians of Harran with the real Sabians which he identifies as the Mandaeans of the marshes of Iraq. The Caliph Mamun asked the pagan Harranians to choose a recognized religion, become Muslim or die. They subsequently identified themselves with the Sabians. Chwolson also connected the Elcesaites with the Mandaeans and with the Essenes.[52]

Nicolas Siouffi[edit]

TheSyriac Christian,[53][54]and later French Vice-Consul atMosul,Nicolas Siouffiin hisÉtudes sur la religion des Soubbas ou Sabéens, leurs dogmes, leurs moeurs(Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1880) claimed to have identified 4,000 Sabians in the Mandaean population. Siouffi's work was well received by the TheosophistG. R. S. Mead,[55]but scholars criticized the estimates and study.[56]

Sir Austen Henry Layard[edit]

Layardmentions in his travel diary[57]meeting a "travelling silversmith" who was "Sabaean or Christian of St. John [the Baptist]". He estimated around 300 to 400 families to live inShooshtarandBasraat the time. He also mentioned Sabians (spelled by Layard as Sabaeans) to be under oppression from Turkish and Persian authorities.[57]

20th-century scholars[edit]

Gavin Maxwellwhile travelling with explorerWilfred Thesigerin the southern marshes of Iraq records in his diary that the Sabians were "People of the Book". The marsh Arabs called them "Subbi". They had their own script and religious practices. He estimated their number as "perhaps ten thousand". They dressed in the manner of the Sunnis. The lived only near moving (rather than stagnant) marsh water. In the mid-1950s they were considered the skilled craftsmen in the area who others turned to for metalwork. The work they were principally known for outside Iraq being silverwork.[58]

21st-century scholars[edit]

Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila (2002, 2006) notes that in themarsh areas of Southern Iraq,there was a continuous tradition of Mandaean religion, and that another pagan, or "Sabian", centre in the tenth-century Islamic world centred onHarran.[59]These pagan "Sabians" are mentioned in theNabataean corpusofIbn Wahshiyya.[60]

Pagan Sabians[edit]

Among the various religious groups which in the 9th and 10th centuries came to be identified with the Sabians mentioned in the Quran, at least two groups werepagans.Moreover, both appear to have engaged in some kind of star worship.

Sabians of Harran[edit]

By far the most famous of these two are the Sabians of Harran, adherents of aHellenizedSemitic pagan religion that had managed to survive during the earlyIslamic periodin theUpper Mesopotamiancity ofHarran.[15]They were described bySyriacChristianheresiographersas star worshippers.[14]Most of the scholars andcourtiersworking for theAbbasidandBuyiddynasties inBaghdadduring the ninth–eleventh centuries who were known as 'Sabians' were either members of this Harranian religion or descendants of such members, most notably the Harranian astronomers and mathematiciansThabit ibn Qurra(died 901) andal-Battani(died 929).[61]There has been some speculation on whether these Sabian families in Baghdad, on whom most of our information about the Harranian Sabians indirectly depends, may have practiced a different, more philosophically inspired variant of the original Harranian religion.[62]However, apart from the fact that it contains traces ofBabylonianandHellenistic religion,and that an important place was taken by planets (to whom ritualsacrificeswere made), little is known about Harranian Sabianism.[63]They have been variously described by scholars as (neo)-Platonists,Hermeticists,orGnostics,but there is no firm evidence for any of these identifications.[64][c]

Lower Mesopotamian Sabians[edit]

Apart from the Sabians of Harran, there were also various religious groups living in theMesopotamian Marsheswho were called the 'Sabians of the Marshes' (Arabic:Ṣābiʾat al-baṭāʾiḥ).[65]Though this name has often been understood as a reference to theMandaeans,there was in fact at least one other religious group living in the marshlands of Southern Iraq.[66]This group still held on to a pagan belief related toBabylonian religion,in which Mesopotamian gods had already been venerated in the form of planets and stars since antiquity.[67]According toIbn al-Nadim,our only source for this specific group counted among the 'Sabians of the Marshes', they "follow the doctrines of the ancient Aramaeans [ʿalā maḏāhiban-Nabaṭal-qadīm] and venerate the stars ".[68]However, there is also a large corpus of texts byIbn Wahshiyya(died c. 930), most famously hisNabataean Agriculture,which describes at length the customs and beliefs — many of them going back to Mespotamian models — of Iraqi Sabians living in theSawād.[69]

Contemporary Sabians[edit]

Mandaean Sabian court for marital dispute,Ahvaz,Iran (2015)

Today inIraqandIran,the Sabians are those that follow the teachings ofJohn the Baptist.They areMandaeanSabians.[20]Due to their faith, pacifism and lack of tribal ties, they have been vulnerable to violence since the2003 invasion of Iraqand numbered fewer than 5,000 in 2007. Before the invasion, the highest concentrations of Mandaeans were inAmarah,NasiriyahandBasra.Besides these southern regions andAhvazin Iran, large numbers of Mandaeans were found inBaghdad,giving them easy access to the Tigris River. Today, they primarily live around Baghdad, where the high priest resides who conducts services and baptisms. Some have moved from Baghdad toKurdistanwhere it is safer.[20]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^Maghrebimanuscript,c. 1250–1350
  2. ^Whether the 'Magians' listed in Quran 22:17 are to be understood as belonging to the People of the Book was a matter of dispute among medieval Muslim scholars. Islamic jurists generally granted Zoroastrians partial status as a People of the Book, though they disagreed on the extent to which legal privileges such as intermarriage with Muslims should be allowed (seeDarrow 2003;Nasr et al. 2015,p. 834, verse 22:17).
  3. ^On the Sabians of Harran, see furtherDozy & de Goeje 1884;Margoliouth 1913;Tardieu 1986;Tardieu 1987;Peters 1990;Green 1992;Fahd 1960–2007;Strohmaier 1996;Genequand 1999;Elukin 2002;Stroumsa 2004;De Smet 2010.

References[edit]

  1. ^Van Bladel 2017,p. 5.
  2. ^De Blois 2004;Marks 2021,p. 20.
  3. ^De Blois 1960–2012;Van Bladel 2009,p. 67.
  4. ^Buck 1984,p. 172.
  5. ^This was extensively argued byChwolsohn 1856andGündüz 1994(both cited byVan Bladel 2009,p. 67). The view has also been adopted by such Mandaean scholars asDrower 1960,p. ix andNasoraia 2012,p. 39 (citing Gündüz 1994).
  6. ^De Blois 1995(cited byVan Bladel 2009,p. 67).
  7. ^Bell 1926,p. 60 (cited byVan Bladel 2009,p. 67).
  8. ^Dozy & de Goeje 1884(cited byGreen 1992,pp. 105–106);Buck 1984(cited byVan Bladel 2009,p. 67).
  9. ^Tardieu 1986(cited byVan Bladel 2009,p. 67).
  10. ^As Gnostics:Pedersen 1922,p. 390 andHjärpe 1972(both cited byVan Bladel 2009,p. 67). As "sectarians":Genequand 1999,pp. 123–127 (cited byVan Bladel 2009,p. 67).
  11. ^Margoliouth 1913(cited byGreen 1992,pp. 106–108);Strohmaier 1996(cited byVan Bladel 2009,pp. 67–68).
  12. ^Green 1992,pp. 119–120;Stroumsa 2004,pp. 335–341;Hämeen-Anttila 2006,p. 50;Van Bladel 2009,p. 68.
  13. ^De Blois 1960–2007;Fahd 1960–2007;Van Bladel 2017,pp. 5, 10.
  14. ^abVan Bladel 2009,p. 68; cf. p. 70.
  15. ^abcDe Blois 1960–2007.
  16. ^Van Bladel 2009,p. 66.
  17. ^A genealogical table of Thabit ibn Qurra's family is given byDe Blois 1960–2007.On some of his descendants, seeRoberts 2017.
  18. ^Van Bladel 2009,p. 67.
  19. ^Hämeen-Anttila 2006,p. 49; cf. pp 46–52, p. 20 note 42, p. 37 note 91.
  20. ^abcSabah, Zaid (27 September 2007)."Sabian sect keeps the faith".USA Today.Retrieved24 December2021.
  21. ^Al-Saadi, Qais; Al-Saadi, Hamed (2019).Ginza Rabba(2nd ed.). Germany: Drabsha.
  22. ^abBrikhah S. Nasoraia (2012)."Sacred Text and Esoteric Praxis in Sabian Mandaean Religion"(PDF).
  23. ^De Blois 2004;Genequand 1999,p. 126.Van Bladel 2009,p. 67, note 14 finds this "the most convincing etymology yet", referring also toDe Blois 1995,pp. 51–52 andMargoliouth 1913,p. 519b.
  24. ^Chwolsohn 1856,as cited byGreen 1992,p. 103.
  25. ^This etymology is still upheld by some scholars, e.g., byHäberl 2009,p. 1.
  26. ^abcdDe Blois 2004.
  27. ^Green 1992,p. 106. That these enemies may have been the Jews is suggested byGenequand 1999,p. 127.
  28. ^Genequand 1999,pp. 126–127.
  29. ^Ibn Hisham's story was thus explained byJulius Wellhausen,as cited byGreen 1992,p. 106.
  30. ^Green 1992,pp. 111–112, referring toSegal 1963.
  31. ^"Sabaism",inThe Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,2nd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2005).
  32. ^De Blois 2004.5:68, the verse preceding 5:69 quoted above, reads "Say: O followers of the Book [ahl al-kitāb]! You follow no good till you keep up the Taurat and the Injeel and that which is revealed to you from your Lord; and surely that which has been revealed to you from your Lord shall make many of them increase in inordinacy and unbelief; grieve not therefore for the unbelieving people. ".[Quran5:68(Translatedby Shakir)]
  33. ^E.g.Sahih BukhariBook No. 7, Hadith No. 340; Book No. 59, Hadith No. 628; Book No. 89, Hadith No. 299 etc.
  34. ^Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002),The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people(PDF),Oxford:Oxford University Press,ISBN9780195153859
  35. ^Ibn al-Nadim.al-Fihrist.pp. 442–445.
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  37. ^"Extracts from Ethel Stefana Drower, 1937,Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran".Archived fromthe originalon 3 December 2017.Retrieved24 May2010.
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  42. ^abVan Bladel 2009.
  43. ^Churton 2002,p. 27.
  44. ^Green 1992,p. 106.
  45. ^Green 1992,p. 112.
  46. ^The Guide for the Perplexed,Book Three, Chapter 37 p. 334M. Friedlander. Dover Publications, Inc. New York. 1956.
  47. ^Elukin 2002.
  48. ^Á'ín-i Sábi'ín by Rúhu'lláh Mihrábkháni, Institute for Baháʼí Studies, Ontario, Canada, 1994
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  50. ^Bahá'u'lláh (1994) [1873–92].Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed After the Kitáb-i-Aqdas.Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Baháʼí Publishing Trust. p. 152.ISBN0-87743-174-4.
  51. ^"The Secret of Divine Civilization | Bahá'í Reference Library".bahai.org.Retrieved31 January2022.
  52. ^Chwolsohn 1856;cf.Drower 1960,pp. 98, 111.
  53. ^The Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics
  54. ^Survival Among The Kurds
  55. ^G. R. S. Mead,Gnostic John the Baptizer: Selections from the Mandaean John-Book,p. 137: "... the French Vice-Consul at Mosul, estimated them at some 4000 souls in all (Etudes sur la Religion des Soubbas ou Sabéens,Paris, 1880). These were then to be found chiefly in the neighbourhood of Baṣra aud Kút. Siouffi's estimate, "
  56. ^The Edinburgh Review,1880, Sydney Smith. "Admitting M. Siouffi's ignorance and his teacher's possible dishonesty, these are scarcely sufficient to account for the origin of all the traditions and beliefs described in the * Etudes sur la religion ' des Soubbas...."
  57. ^abLayard, Austen Henry, Sir (1887).Early adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia, including a residence among the bakhtiyari and other wild tribes before the discovery of Nineveh.John Murray. pp. 162–164.ISBN9781313905619.{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  58. ^A Reed Shaken By the Wind: A Journey Through the Unexplored Marshlands of IraqHarper and Row,1957;ISBN1-85089-272-5
  59. ^Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila inIdeologies as intercultural phenomenap. 90, ed. Antonio Panaino, Giovanni Pettinato, International Association for Intercultural Studies of theMELAMMUProject, 2002 "... that in the marsh areas of Southern Iraq there was a continuous tradition of Mandaean religion, but it seems to have been totally neglected in scholarship that there was another pagan, or Sabian, centre in the tenth-century Islamic world, in the countryside of Iraq (sawad) around Baghdad"
  60. ^Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, 2002. First, the books of the Nabatean corpus themselves claim to be translations from "ancient Syriac" (e.g. Filaha 1:5) made by Ibn Wahshiyya and transmitted to a student of his, Ibn az-Zayyat. The real authors of, e.g., Filaha, according to...
  61. ^Van Bladel 2009,p. 65. A genealogical table of Thabit ibn Qurra's family is given byDe Blois 1960–2007.On some of his descendants, seeRoberts 2017.
  62. ^Hjärpe 1972(as cited byVan Bladel 2009,pp. 68–69).
  63. ^Van Bladel 2009,pp. 65–66.
  64. ^Van Bladel 2009,p. 70.
  65. ^Van Bladel 2017,pp. 14, 71. On the Mesopotamian Marshes in the early Islamic period, see pp. 60–69.
  66. ^Van Bladel 2017,p. 71. According to Van Bladel there were two other groups, the third one beingElchasaites,whom other scholars see as Mandaeans.
  67. ^Van Bladel 2017,pp. 71–72.
  68. ^Translation byVan Bladel 2017,p. 71.
  69. ^Hämeen-Anttila 2006,pp. 46–52.

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