Chief priest in Mandaeism
Arishama (rišama ;riš-ama ),rishamma , orrishema (Classical Mandaic :ࡓࡉࡔࡀࡌࡀ ,lit. ' 'head/leader of the people' ' ;Modern Mandaic :rišammā ;[ 1] Arabic :ريش امّة ;Persian :ریشا اد اما ) is a religious patriarch inMandaeism .[ 2] [ 3] ganzibra tarmida Mandaean priest ).
In Iraq, the current rishama isSattar Jabbar Hilow .[ 4] [ 5] [ 6] Salah Choheili andBrikha Nasoraia .[ 7] [ 8]
TheMandaic termrišama is derived from the wordsriš 'head' andama 'people'. Although the term for the Mandaeandaily minor ablution is also spelled the same in written Classical Mandaic (rišama ), the word for 'minor ablution' is pronounced in Modern Mandaic asrešāmā rišammā [ 1]
Notablerishama or patriarchs [ edit ] Zazai d-Gawazta bar Hawa, patriarch datable to around the year 270 CE and earliest known copyist ofAlma Rišaia Zuṭa ,Qulasta ,The Thousand and Twelve Questions ,The Baptism of Hibil Ziwa ,Scroll of Exalted Kingship , andThe Wedding of the Great Šišlam . TheGinza Rabba , however, predates Zazai's time.[ 9] : 157 [ 10] Anush bar Danqa , the leader of the Mandaeans, who appeared before Muslim authorities at the beginning of theMuslim conquest of Persia Yahya Bihram , who revived the entire Mandaean priesthood during the 1830sRam Zihrun , who revived the Mandaean priesthood during the 1830s together with his younger cousinYahya Bihram 20th and 21st centuries [ edit ] Iraq Iran Australia Salah Choheili (born 1952), an Iranian-Australian priest who has been a rishama in Sydney since 2010[ 11] Brikha Nasoraia (born 1964), an Iraqi-Australian priest who has been a rishama in Sydney since 2024
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