Definitions

1. Sabians are adherents of religions derived from the beliefs of a community which was based in the area of ancient Subartu.
2. Sabians were mentioned in the Qur'an, but those were a group of Gnostic Mandaeans living in southern Mesopotamia.
3. The Sabians were well known until the ninth century AD. Around this time, the Harranians claimed the name Sabian in order to avoid Islamic persecution. (Web site)
4. The Sabians are also mentioned in the literature of the Bahá'í Faith.
5. The Sabians (Sabeans, Sabaeans) are mentioned in several Bahai writings, though information is sparse. (Web site)

Gnostic Sabians

1. There are two kinds of Sabians, agnostic Sabians (Sābi'ūna Hunafāh) and gnostic Sabians (i.e.

Article

1. If so then this article should be titled Quran-Bahai Sabiyah not Sabians.

Period

1. Many Islamic writers from the period of about 650 CE onward gave further descriptions of the Sabians.

Place

1. I have placed a very rough article on the Sabians in place with references for further study-- footnotes and more details can be provided if required.

Ancient People

1. Most of the experts of tafseer interpret Sabians as ancient people who worship stars, as a symbol of God as their highest devotion.

Ancient Writers

1. They fit the description, of the Sabians, as given by many Islamic and ancient writers. (Web site)

Religion

1. One of those groups listed is alt.religion.sabaean which of course has nothing to do with the Sabians of the Qu�ran.

Mandaeans

1. Then from the 1500's onward the Sabians are mention by many European scholars and writers in connection with the Mandaeans or the Harranians.
2. This religion certainly has nothing to do with the true Sabians, the Mandaeans.

Reference Book

1. The Sabians listed on this site before, Quran-Bahai Sabiyah as described, are an unknown religious group that cannot be found in any reference book.

Book

1. They soon came to be known as "Sabeaeans" and sought to supplant the former "Sabians" as the people of the book. (Web site)
2. Besides the Persian calendar, various festivals of Arabs, Jews, Sabians, Greeks and other nations are mentioned in this book.
3. The Sabians existed before Muhammad, and are said to have read from a book called the Zabur. (Web site)

Mohammed

1. The Sabians existed before Mohammed, who was said to have been Sabian and they are said to have read from a book called the Zaboor.

Maimonides

1. Based upon a book called The Nabataean Agriculture which Maimonides translated, Maimonides' "Guide for the Perplexed" describes the Gnostic Sabians (a.k.a.

Christians

1. This includes all Christians, all Jews (including Karaites and Samaritans), and "Sabians" (a Qur'anic term interpreted to refer to the Mandaeans).

Islam

1. When he appears he will offer the religion of Islam to the Jews, Christians, Sabians, and the disbelievers in the east and the west. (Web site)

Scholars

1. Given the substantial evidence, many scholars contend that the Sabians mentioned in the Qur'an are those we call today the Mandaeans.
2. The revitalization in the study of the Sabians has drawn many new researchers, scholars, and writers, resulting in a whole new generation of literature. (Web site)
3. Some scholars argue that the term Sabians are used to accomodate people of different faith other than Judaism and Christianity. (Web site)

Religions

1. The religions of the Sabians and Magians, of the Jews and Christians, were disseminated from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea.

Adherents

1. Like their adherents, the Mandaeans, also known as Sabians, are monotheistic and share many of the same prophets, with John the Baptist a central figure.

Verses

1. The whole debate on who the Sabians were is directly connected to the existence of the following verses from the Qu'ran, the Holy Book of Islam.

Long Hair

1. They wrote that the Sabians were seen as baptists who had "long hair" and "white gowns".

Edessa

1. Long ago however, there may have existed some connection between the two groups, since Sabians allegedly had a base in Edessa. (Web site)

Harran

1. The Sabians of Harran are defined as idol worshippers and the term Sabians is now being used to include a wide variety of religions.
2. Adherents The adherents of the faith were referred to as the "Sabians of Harran" (of Carrhae) in Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed.
3. Many local cults and shrines, such as that of the Sabians and their moon deity at Harran, however, continued to exist until the Islamic conquest. (Web site)

Sabaeans

1. The confusion of Sabaeans with Sabians began with Marmeduke Pickthall 's spelling mistake in his translation of the Qur'an.

Sabians

1. The people of Harran identified themselves with the Sabians in order to fall under the protection of Islam. (Web site)
2. There has been considered study by scholars with the majority of scholars have determined that the Sabians of the Quran are the Mandaeans.
3. �People of the book� or �dhimmis� (Zamis) in Quran are named as Jews, Christians and Sabians, who had adherents among the Arabs.

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