Abdullah bar Negm
Sheikh Abdullah bar Negm was an Iraqi Mandaean priest who served as the Rishama of Baghdad, Iraq from 1981 to 1999.
Life
Rabbi Negm was born into the Khaffagi clan. In 1947, his father, Rabbi Negm bar Zahroon, who had just become a ganzibra that same year, initiated him into the Mandaean priesthood. Abdullah bar Negm's ordination was mentioned in his father's two-page letter to E. S. Drower, which was dated February 4, 1948.Abdullah bar Negm married Rabbi Abdullah Khaffagi's daughter Šarat from Ahvaz, Iran. Rafid al-Sabti, a tarmida currently residing in Nijmegen, Netherlands, is the son of Rabbi Abdullah.
Abdullah bar Negm became Rishama of Baghdad after Dakhil Aidan's death in 1964.
Rishama Abdullah bar Negm was known for initiating Sheikh Haithem into the priesthood in Iraq, as well as the majority of well-known Mandaean priests in the diaspora.
He later emigrated with his wife to the United Kingdom. After his wife died in the United Kingdom, Abdullah bar Negm moved to Nijmegen, Netherlands to be with his family members. He died in the Netherlands in 2010.