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Mani was an Iranian prophet and the founder of Manichaeism, a religion that combined elements of Christianity, Gnosticism, and Zoroastrianism. He claimed to be the apostle of Jesus Christ and the Paraclete, and he wrote several works in Syriac and Middle Persian.
MANI, a hubristic criminal lawyer, is back on the field to defend an unlikely suspect in the murder of a teenage girl. She faces her closest buddy, VIDYA, an eccentric police detective, also searching for the truth.
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Mani (216-274) was a Persian prophet who claimed to be the final successor of all previous revelations and the carrier of a universal message of light and truth. He founded Manichaeism, a dualistic religion that viewed the world as a fusion of spirit and matter, and spread it across Asia and Europe.
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This chapter reconsiders the many variations of the life of Mani as depicted in Manichaean, apocryphal, pseudepigraphical and polemical texts in the light of these new discoveries and the scholarship that preceded it.
Mani was an Iranian [24] [25] [a] born in 216 CE in or near Seleucia-Ctesiphon (now al-Mada'in, Iraq) in the Parthian Empire. According to the Cologne Mani-Codex, [26] Mani's parents were members of the Jewish Christian Gnostic sect known as the Elcesaites. [27] Mani composed seven works, six of which were written in the late-Aramaic ...
Sep 19, 2024 · Manichaeism, dualistic religious movement founded in Persia in the 3rd century CE by Mani, who was known as the ‘Apostle of Light.’ Although Manichaeism was long considered a Christian heresy, it was a religion in its own right that preserved throughout its history a unity and unique character.
Mani was a 3rd century CE religious leader who claimed to be the ultimate revealer of divine gnosis and the founder of Manicheism. Learn about his life, works, sources, and legacy in this comprehensive article.
