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The Founder of Manichaeism - Rethinking the Life of Mani (Hardcover)
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The Founder of Manichaeism - Rethinking the Life of Mani (Hardcover)
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Mani, a third-century preacher, healer and public sage from
Sasanian Mesopotamia, lived at a pivotal time and place in the
development of the major religions. He frequented the courts of the
Persian Empire, debating with rivals from the Judaeo-Christian
tradition, philosophers and gnostics, Zoroastrians from Iran and
Buddhists from India. The community he founded spread from north
Africa to south China and lasted for over a thousand years. Yet the
genuine biography of its founder, his life and thought, was in good
part lost until a series of spectacular discoveries have begun to
transform our knowledge of Mani's crucial role in the spread of
religious ideas and practices along the trade-routes of Eurasia.
This book utilises the latest historical and textual research to
examine how Mani was remembered by his followers, caricatured by
his opponents, and has been invented and re-invented according to
the vagaries of scholarly fashion.
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