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Don’t forget the Baha’i, the Babs, and the Druze. Don’t know if they’re considered people of the book or not. Same with the Samaritan Israelites
I'll just copy paste Wikipedia since it's actually pretty good here:
We don't actually know who the Sabians were, though there are a few theories.
I think only Christians, Jews, and Sabians are al-Khitab if I recall correctly from my course on Islam two decades ago.