historically been a fairly unified religion, it has had some schisms over its history. These schisms occurred from the sixth century AD until at least the 10th...

at its height was one of the most widespread religions in the world. Manichaean churches and scriptures existed as far east as the Han Dynasty and as...

persecution in Mesopotamia Mihr Zad Hurmuz Miqlas Abū Hilāl al-Dayhūri Manichaean schisms Lieu, Samuel N.C. Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval...

"established anew the ancient Faith". In his youth he was drawn to the Manichaean faith, and later to the Hellenistic philosophy of Neoplatonism. After...

stridently dualist sect of Gnostic Christians heavily influenced by the Manichaean Paulician movement. The Bogomil heretics were at one point mainly centered...

Qolasta and Left Ginza and the Manichaean Psalms of Thomas (earlier suggested by Säve-Söderbergh (1949) to be due to Manichaean adaptations of Mandaeans hymns)...

to be understood by this mention of Manichæans, although probably Priscillianists were at times called Manichæans in the writings of that age. The western...

Greek: Ἀθίγγανοι, singular Athinganos, Ἀθίγγανος, Atsinganoi) were a Manichaean sect regarded as Judaizing heretics who lived in Phrygia and Lycaonia...

(d. 611 or 612), namely "A polemic against the Severans (Jacobites), Manichaeans, Kentaeans, and Mandaeans" (Drāšā haw d-luqbal Seweryāne w-Mənenāye w-Kentāye...

of the 'Church of the East'". Nestorian.org. Lieu, Sam; Parry, Ken. "Manichaean and (Nestorian) Christian Remains in Zayton (Quanzhou, South China)"....

of Mar Ammo there was a schism between the Manichaean church in Babylonia and the Sogdian Manichaeans. The Sogdian Manichaeans, known as the Denawars (Middle...

successor. He was burned to death, the punishment pronounced upon the Manichaeans, in 690. The adherents of the sect fled, with their new leader Paul at...

being confirmed more recently by the Cologne Mani Codex. None of the Manichaean scriptures has survived in its entirety, and it seems that the remaining...

Pelagianism, Donatism, Marcionism and Montanism. The diffusion of the almost Manichaean sect of Paulicians westwards gave birth to the famous 11th- and 12th-century...

Iconoclastic period; Maris, the Arian; Heraclianus, who wrote against the Manichaeans and the Monophysites; Leo, persecuted by Alexius I Comnenus. The Greek...

include apologetic works against the heresies of the Arians, Donatists, Manichaeans and Pelagians; texts on Christian doctrine, notably De Doctrina Christiana...

Italy that the Manichaeans had been eradicated from Rome. According to his contemporary Prosper of Aquitaine, Leo exposed the Manichaeans and burned their...

about 792. Like the Church of the East, the traditional center of the Manichaean church was in Seleucia-Ctesiphon. Mani dedicated his only Middle Persian...

were referred to as "Manichaean", and are today sometimes described by scholars as "Neo-Manichaean". As there is no known Manichaean mythology or terminology...

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in theory and in practice. Thus, in keeping with the civil law, some Manichæans were executed at Ravenna in 556. On the other hand, Elipandus of Toledo...

Cyzicus. Other similar works are his treatise in four books against the Manichaeans and Paulicians, and his controversy with the Latins on the Procession...

Buddhism is also characterized by the development of numerous movements, schisms, and philosophical schools, among them the Theravāda, Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna...

come from one God, a position especially opposed by the Manichaeans. Ibn al-Muqaffa', a Manichaean apologist who later converted to Islam, depicted the Abrahamic...

a fact that Ohrmuzd reminds him of (Bundahishn 1.16). In contrast, in Manichaean scripture, Mani ascribes foresight to Ahriman. Some Zoroastrians believed...

Didactic Images of the Manichaeans from Sasanian Mesopotamia to Uygur Central Asia and Tang-Ming China (PDF). Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies. Vol. 90....

Khidr, described as an ideal human. Ibn Nadim, who was also familiar with Manichaean teachings, even identifies Buddha as a prophet, who taught a religion...

remote parts of his see, preaching "among the pagans, Marcionites and Manichaeans." In a similar way, the tenth-century Muslim bibliographer Ibn al-Nadīm...

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The term patriarch has also been used for the leader of the extinct Manichaean religion, initially based at Ctesiphon (near modern-day Baghdad) and later...