Sinan Abdul Jabbar Abdullah (born 1947; ar, سنان عبد الله) is a Mandaean-American dentist and community leader. He and his twin brother Haithem are known as the first American-born Mandaeans.

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Sinan Abdullah (full name: Sinan Abdul Jabbar Abdullah, ar, سنان عبد الجبار عبد الله) was born in 1947. His father

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was a physicist and university administrator who immigrated to the United States from Iraq, while his paternal grandfather was the Mandaean priest Ganzibra Abdullah bar Sam. He and his twin brother Haithem were the first Mandaeans born in the United States. In 1979, Sinan married his wife Rand in Iraq. The

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was officiated by his grandfather, Ganzibra Abdullah bar Sam. Sinan Abdullah is a dentist who has lived in Niskayuna, New York;

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; and other locations. He owns various Mandaean manuscripts that were analyzed by scholars such as Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley and Charles G. Häberl, including a photocopy of a manuscript of the

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that was copied by

Salem Choheili Šganda Salem Choheili ( fa, سالم چحیلی; born 1935 in Ahvaz, Iran} is an Iranian Mandaean scribe, teacher, and author. He is also a shganda and ''yalufa'' (learned Mandaean layman) and is one of the leaders of the Mandaean Council of ...

( Mandaean baptismal name: Bayan, son of Sharat) on April 12, 1989.

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