Sinan Abdullah

Sinan Abdul Jabbar Abdullah (born 1947; ) is an Iraqi-American dentist and community leader. He and his twin brother Haithem are known as the first American-born Mandaeans. He and his twin brother Haithem were the first Mandaeans born in the United States. In 1979, Sinan married his wife Rand in Iraq. Their wedding ceremony was officiated by his grandfather, Ganzibra Abdullah bar Sam. He owns various Mandaean manuscripts that were analyzed by scholars such as Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley and Charles G. Häberl, including a photocopy of a manuscript of the Mandaean Book of John that was copied by Salem Choheili (Mandaean baptismal name: Bayan, son of Sharat) on April 12, 1989.