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| Mandaean History 700- 1400 AD |
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| between 1288 - 1300 Ricoldo de Montecroce (Ricoldo Pennini) visited the Mesopotamian area where he did meet with the Mandaean people. He wrote a book called "Itinerarium" or "Book of Peregrinations in Eastern Parts" . 792AD The Syrian theologian Theodore Bar Konai includes sections of the Ginza in his book Scholion (Book of the Schools) in his description of the Mandaeans or Dostaeans. 700's AD-late Arab writers write of the connection between Mohammed and the Sabians (Mandaean) Abd al Rahman ibn Zayd (d.798 AD) wrote: "The polytheists used to say of the prophet and his companions "these are the Sabians’ comparing them to them, because the Sabians who live Jaziartal-Mawsil (today known as Iraq) would say ‘there is no God but God’." Both Ibn Jurayi (d. 767) AND Ata ibn Abi Rabah (d.732) wrote: "Of the relationship between the Sabians who lived in Sawad (in Iraq ) and Mohammed it is mention that the polytheists of Mecca were heard to say of Mohammed "he has become a Sabian". Ibn Jurayi (who lived in the 8th century) wrote: "He (Mohammed) is a Sabian" Abd al-Rahman ibn Zayd (d798 AD) wrote: "The prophet and his companions are referred to as 'these are the Sabians' comparing Mohammed to the Sabians" |