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• Professor Dr. Nasoraia is a Ganzibra (Mandaean High Priest) and a leader of Mandaean-Nasoraeans. He is the president of the International Mandaean Nasoraean Supreme Council and the Mandaean Spiritual Council of Australia. At present he is workin...More

  Professor Dr. Nasoraia is a Ganzibra (Mandaean High Priest) and a leader of Mandaean-Nasoraeans. He is the president of the International Mandaean Nasoraean Supreme Council and the Mandaean Spiritual Council of Australia. At present he is working at the Centre for Peace, Conflict and Middle Eastern Studies; the Departments of Arabic Language and Literature (Mardin-Artuklu University); Indian Sub- continental Studies and the Centre for Millennial Studies (both University of Sydney). Also he is completing his fourth Ph.D. at Macquarie University, which examines the esoteric, mystical and artistic aspects of ancient Gnostic secret scrolls from the Middle East. His studies cover many areas of the liberal arts. Now he is working on two large projects, “The Complete Comparative Dictionary of Arabic Words” and “The Gulf Migrants, Sacred Literature and Diaspora in the Indian Ocean and Africa: A Cross-Cultural Study of the Ancient Gulf Migrations.” Among his important forthcoming publication A Critical Edition, with Translation and Analytical Study of the Scroll of Great Creation of the Image/Likeness of Truth, Erica Hunter (Senior Editor) Corpus Codicum Mandaeorum series, Brepols Publishers (2013) and The Esoteric and Mystical Concepts of the Illustrated Mandaean Nasoraean Scroll: Diwan Qadaha Rba d- Dmuth Kušţa (in the same series). Less

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