Tarmida Sahi Bashikh Al-Zahrooni (Arabic: ساهي باشخ الزهروني, also known as Sahi Khamisi ساهي خمیسی; born 1966, in Susangerd, Khuzestan, Iran) is an Iranian-Australian Mandaean priest.[1] He is a priest at Yahya Yuhana Mandi in Sydney, Australia.[2]
Sahi Bashikh | |
|---|---|
ساهي باشخ | |
 Tarmida Sahi Bashikh in front of a shkinta at Yahya Yuhana Mandi | |
| Title | Tarmida |
| Personal | |
| Born | 1966 |
| Religion | Mandaeism |
| Other names | Sahi Khamisi |
| Occupation | Mandaean priest |
Biography
editHe was born in Susangerd, Khuzestan, Iran in 1966 and lived in Ahvaz for most of his life. He emigrated to Sydney, Australia in the mid-2010s, where he was initiated as a tarmida by Ganzibra Khaldoon Majid Abdullah.[3]
Publications
editHis books include:[4]
- Khamisi, Sahi (2015). آیا صابئین مندایی را میشناسید؟ / Āyā Sābe’īn-e Mandāyī rā mishenāsīd? [Do You Know the Sabaean Mandaeans?]. Tehran: Yadavaran. ISBN 9789645824516. (in Persian)
- صابئین قوم همیشه زنده تاریخ / The Sabaeans are a living people throughout history. ISBN 9789648593181. (in Persian)
- أبناء الحياة / The sons of Life. ISBN 9780975647509. (in Arabic)
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sahi Bashikh.
- ^ "A Mandaean Priest's Dashed Hopes for Change in Iran". IranWire. 2022-03-18. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
- ^ Robins, Ian (July 2016). "Album: The Yahya Yuhana Mandi, Sydney". The Worlds of Mandaean Priests. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
- ^ "طراسة الأخ الشوليا ساهي باشخ الزهيري (٢)". Mandaean Faith. 2024-03-06. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
- ^ Amirteimour, Iman (2017). The Iranian Children of Adam: A study on the Iranian Sabaean Mandaean community (PDF) (M.A. thesis). University of Oslo.
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