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<h2 id="other-uses">Other uses</h2> <p>The <a href="/facts/Mandaic_language/AkXr6TYj">Mandaic</a> term <i><a href="/facts/Zidqa_brika/vge2H8pE">zidqa brika</a></i> (literally "blessed <a href="/facts/Oblation/XYJIBPbM">oblation</a>") refers to a ritual meal blessed by priests. An early self-appellation for Mandaeans is <i>bhiri zidqa</i>, meaning 'elect of righteousness'.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Charity_(Christian_virtue)/UYRGjYN1">Charity (Christian virtue)</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Zakat/yLQ4Mygk">Zakat</a> in Islam</li> <li><a href="/facts/Sadaqah/Mbw3Uyqh">Sadaqah</a> in Islam (Arabic cognate)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Tzedakah/fwku94p2">Tzedakah</a> in Judaism (Hebrew cognate)</li> <li><a href="/facts/D%25C4%2581na/CyGtvffJ">Dāna</a> in Hinduism</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Gelbert, Carlos (2011). Ginza Rba. Sydney: Living Water Books. ISBN 9780958034630. <a href="9780958034630" target="_blank">9780958034630</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Drower, Ethel Stefana. 1937. The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran. Oxford At The Clarendon Press. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Nasoraia, Brikha H.S. (2021). The Mandaean gnostic religion: worship practice and deep thought. New Delhi: Sterling. ISBN 978-81-950824-1-4. OCLC 1272858968. <a href="978-81-950824-1-4" target="_blank">978-81-950824-1-4</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Drower, E. S. (1959). The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans. Leiden: E. J. Brill. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Häberl, Charles (2022). The Book of Kings and the Explanations of This World: A Universal History from the Late Sasanian Empire. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. doi:10.3828/9781800856271 (inactive 1 November 2024). ISBN 978-1-80085-627-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link) <a href="978-1-80085-627-1" target="_blank">978-1-80085-627-1</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Rudolph, Kurt (7 April 2008). "MANDAEANS ii. THE MANDAEAN RELIGION". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Retrieved 8 January 2022. <a href="https://iranicaonline.org/articles/mandaeans-2-religion" target="_blank">https://iranicaonline.org/articles/mandaeans-2-religion</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>