dhimmi
n.— «The Moslem rulers classed the Mandeans with those called “dhimmi”, i.e., the ones with whom a compact for religious toleration had been made…The Koran mentions three groups of dhimmi, the Jews, the Christians and the Sabiun or the Sabeans, not to be confused with the Sabean family of the Semitic peoples.» —“The Origin and Antiquity of the Mandeans” by C.H. Kraeling Journal of the American Oriental Society , 1929. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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