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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.

• MANICHEISM iii. THE MANICHEAN PANDAEMONIUM

  Werner Sundermann

  demons and demonology in Manicheism.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• MANNEA

  Ran Zadok

  (Neo-Assyrian Mannāyu), name refering to a region southeast of Lake Urmia centered around modern Saqqez.

• 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.

• 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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