Khaldoon Majid Abdullah

Ganzibra Khaldoon Majid Abdullah is an Iraqi-Australian Mandaean priest. He is currently the ganzibra of Yahya Yuhana Mandi in Prestons, New South Wales, Australia.

Biography

Khaldoon Majid Abdullah was born on 16 March 1963 in Amarah, Maysan Governorate, Iraq. His Mandaean baptismal name is Adam bar Maliha. His father died when he was 4 months old. When he was 7 years old, he moved to Baghdad.
In 1995, he was initiated as a tarmida by his rabbi, Tarmida Khalaf Abed Raba, when he was 32 years old. Rishamma Abdullah bar Sam was the head priest supervising the initiation at the time. Khaldoon Majid Abdullah later attained the rank of ganzibra and emigrated to Australia. In 2019, he initiated Sahi Bashikh, who had arrived in Australia from Iran in 2017, as a tarmida. As of 2023, he serves as the head priest of Yahya Yuhana Mandi in the Sydney metropolitan area, Australia.
His mother's uncle was Sheikh Tarmida Salem Shukhair of Amarah, who was initiated as a tarmida in 1967 and died in 2003.