Yahya Bihram
As priest
As priest
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While Ram Zihrun served as a *[ganzibra](/wiki/Ganzibra "Ganzibra")* priest in the towns of [Shushtar](/wiki/Shushtar "Shushtar") and [Dezful](/wiki/Dezful "Dezful") in [Khuzestan](/wiki/Khuzestan "Khuzestan"), Yahya Bihram stayed on to serve as a *ganzibra* in the Mandaean quarter of Margab in [Suq eš\-Šuyuk](/wiki/Suq_al-Shuyukh_District "Suq al-Shuyukh District") (), a village along the lower [Euphrates](/wiki/Euphrates "Euphrates") located in what is now [Dhi Qar Governorate](/wiki/Dhi_Qar_Governorate "Dhi Qar Governorate") in southern Iraq. In Suq eš\-Šuyuk, Yahya Bihram and the Mandaean community endured persecution under the local tribal chieftain Thamir ibn Ghadban during the reign of Ottoman ruler [Abdülmecid I](/wiki/Abd%C3%BClmecid_I "Abdülmecid I"), as they underwent [forced circumcisions](/wiki/Forced_circumcision "Forced circumcision"), robberies, murders, and starvation.

In 1854, the German philologist [Julius Heinrich Petermann](/wiki/Julius_Heinrich_Petermann "Julius Heinrich Petermann") worked with Yahya Bihram in [Suq eš\-Šuyuk](/wiki/Suq_al-Shuyukh_District "Suq al-Shuyukh District") to document the Mandaean religion, culture, and language. Yahya Bihram was Petermann's primary informant. Petermann later published accounts of his travels, as well as a Latin translation of the *[Ginza Rabba](/wiki/Ginza_Rabba "Ginza Rabba")*, in the 1860s.

Yahya Bihram died in the late 1800s.


How do the Ottoman rulers respond to Yahya Bihram and the Mandaean community's plight?