** [[Mandaeism|Mandaeans]] a gnostic community that seceeded c.60CE from the Sabians who eventually came to be mentioned in the Quran. Mandaean is the term used for the laypeople of the community, and Nasorean is the term used for the priesthood directly descendedfrom the 1st C. BC Notzrim. They are in Lower Babylonia, in the territory of Wasiṭ and Bassora, near Khuzistan. ca. 1st c. CE to the present day;
''polytheistic''
* [[Sabians of Maimonides]] usually understood to be the TSabians of Harran, although may be a composite of Sabaeans, Harranians, Mandaeans and Zoroastrians.
* [[Sabaeans|SHabians of Sheba]], (Sabaeans) an ancient polytheistic people living in what is now Yemen. ca. 10th to 6th c. BCE
