RbaiRafid al-Sabti, known in full asRafid al-Rishama Abdallah al-Ganzibra Zahrun al-Rishama Abdallah al-Sabti (Arabic:رافد الريشاما عبدالله الگنزبرا نجم الگنزبرا زهرون الريشاما عبدالله السبتي كنيانا عزيز; born 1965[2]), is an Iraqi-DutchMandaean priest inNijmegen,The Netherlands.[3]
Al-Sabti was born in 1965 toRishamaAbdullah, son ofSheikh Neǧm, inBaghdad, Iraq.[4] He was initiated into the Mandaean priesthood by his father.[5]: 118 Al-Sabti later emigrated to the Netherlands.
Al-Sabti is the custodian of theRbai Rafid Collection (RRC), a private collection of Mandaean manuscripts held inNijmegen, The Netherlands.[6] Important manuscripts in the collection include different versions of theGinza Rabba and a copy of theAlma Rišaia Zuṭa known as Ms. RRC 3F,[7] as well as aqulasta inscribed on lead plates.[8]: 22 The collection is being digitized and analyzed in collaboration withMatthew Morgenstern.[9][10]
^Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2023).1800 Years of Encounters with Mandaeans. Gorgias Mandaean Studies. Vol. 5. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press.ISBN978-1-4632-4132-2.ISSN1935-441X.
^Morgenstern, Matthew (ed.)."Mandaic texts".The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon. Retrieved27 July 2024.
^Morgenstern, Matthew.New Manuscript Sources for the Study of Mandaic. In: V. Golinets et. al (eds.),Neue Beiträge zur Semitistik. Sechstes Treffen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Semitistik in der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft vom 09.–11. Februar 2013 in Heidelberg. AOAT, Ugarit Verlag.
^Al-Sabtī, Rāfid ʻAbd Allāh Naǧm (2022).The treasure of life : the holy book of the Mandaeans : written in the original Mandaic tongue (in Aramaic). Nijmegen: RRC.ISBN978-90-90-36005-8.OCLC1351435847.
