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Ṭib, 'city of Ashganda' (near Wasit)
unlocated town in the Wasit region, Iraq · Mandaeans & Nasoraia (southern Mesopotamia/Khuzestan)
32.188, 46.298
Approximate location. The map shows a region, not a pin.
Attested. Ṭib is attested in Mandaean colophons and in Yaqut. Its exact location is not fixed, so the pin is a regional anchor.
Ṭib, 'city of Ashganda' (near Wasit)
unlocated town in the Wasit region
Mandaean colophons remember Ṭib as the city of Ashganda, a leading scribe before Islam, and as the base of the later schismatic leader Qiqil. Ṭib lay near Wasit and was an important Mandaean scribal center in the early Islamic period. The geographer Yaqut described it as a town of Aramaic-speaking 'Sabians'.
Source stance: insider. Mandaean colophons are insider sources. Yaqut is a neutral Muslim geographer.
People and groups named here
- Ashganda (Shganda)
- Qiqil
Sources
- MANDAEANS i. History
Edmondo F. Lupieri, Encyclopaedia Iranica (2008, upd. 2018). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Mandaeans (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Wasit (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
Councils here
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