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MANICHEISM ii. THE MANICHEAN PANTHEON
Werner Sundermann
In this article, the gods of the Manicheans are considered collectively with regards to their names and functions.
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MANICHEISM iii. THE MANICHEAN PANDAEMONIUM
Werner Sundermann
demons and demonology in Manicheism.
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MANICHEISM iv. BUDDHIST ELEMENTS IN
P. Bryder
Mani, who came to be considered himself to be the seal of the prophets, named Buddha, Zarathustra, and Jesus as his forerunners.
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MANICHEISM v. MISSIONARY ACTIVITY AND TECHNIQUE
Werner Sundermann
The main primary sources on the beginning of Manichean missionary work are the Cologne Mani Codex and the Kephalaia.
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MANICHEISM vi. IN CHINA
Sammuel L.C. Lieu
Manicheism arrived in China in the sixth century, but its history in there was little known until the first decade of the 20th century, when a genuine Manichean text in Chinese was discovered in the Cave of Thousand Buddhas in Tun-huang.
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MANJIL
Marcel Bazin
town in the Rudbār district, Gilān province. Located at lat 36°44′ N, long 49°24′ E, where the Qezel-owzan (Kızıl-uzun) and Šāhrud rivers unite into the Safidrud.
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MANNEA
Ran Zadok
(Neo-Assyrian Mannāyu), name refering to a region southeast of Lake Urmia centered around modern Saqqez.
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MANṢUR B. NUḤ
C. Edmund Bosworth
the name of two of the later Amirs of the Samanids (q.v.), the first ruling in both Transoxiana and Khorasan, and the second in Transoxiana only.
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MANSURI, ZABIH-ALLAH
Ḥassan Mirābedini
(d. 1986), a prolific Iranian journalist, writer, and translator who wrote under the pseudonyms “Nāṣer” and “Pištāz”.
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