Nasser Sobbi

Nasser Sobbi (; born March 13, 1924, Khorramshahr; died December 22, 2018, Flushing, Queens) was an Iranian-American Mandaean scribe, manuscript collector, and goldsmith

Mandaean manuscripts On July 16, 1989, Sobbi finished copying a handwritten copy of the Ginza Rabba, the only one of its kind in North America. Sobbi also owned a copy of the Haran Gawaita from 1930 He spoke Neo-Mandaic regularly with his wife Shukrieh, his brother Dakhil A. Shooshtary, and his uncle Abdolkarim Moradi, a resident of Syosset, New York. Throughout the 2000s, Sobbi worked as Charles G. Häberl's Neo-Mandaic language informant for Häberl's 2006 Harvard doctoral dissertation The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr, which was later published as a monograph by Harrassowitz Verlag in 2009.

Family Nasser Sobbi was the father of one son, Isa, and four daughters, Freshteh, Juliette, Labiba, and Nabila. Labiba's husband grew up in a Neo-Mandaic-speaking household and could understand the language, but was not a fluent speaker himself. The couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 2000. was also a fluent speaker of Neo-Mandaic and compiled various Mandaic dictionaries, including an English-Mandaic dictionary, Arabic-Mandaic dictionary, and Farsi-Mandaic dictionary.