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MANDAEANS iv. COMMUNITY IN IRAN
Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley
According to the 15 September 2004 United States Department of State International Religious Freedom Report for Iran, Section 1, the current Mandaean population in Persia comprises between 5,000 and 10,000 persons.
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MANDAEANS v. MANDAIC LANGUAGE
Christa Müller-Kessler
Mandaic is the term for the Aramaic dialect of the last remaining non-Christian Gnostics from Late Antiquity, the Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran (Ḵuzestān). It belongs to the Southeastern Aramaic dialect group with Babylonian Talmudic Aramaic and Koiné Babylonian Aramaic.
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MANDAEANS vi. NEO-MANDAIC LANGUAGE
Charles Häberl
or modern Mandaic, the contemporary form of Mandaic, the language of the Mandaean religious community of Iraq and Iran. As such, it is the only known form of any of the classical literary dialects of Aramaic to survive to the present date, but it is severely endangered today.
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MANDANE
Rüdiger Schmitt
name of a daughter of the Median king Astyages.
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MANGHITS
ANKE VON KÜGELGEN
self-denomination of Mongol and Turkic tribes which played an eminent role in the Golden Horde.
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MANI
Werner Sundermann
the founder of the religion of Manicheism in the 3rd century CE. His life, being the central human subject of Manichean salvation history, necessarily underwent hagiographical stylization.
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MANICHEAN ART
Zsuzsanna Gulacsi
term referring to objects with aesthetic appeal made for, and/or used in association with, the Manichean religion. Apart from a rock-crystal seal in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, no other item of Manichean art is known from Sasanian Mesopotamia, where the religion originated.
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MANICHEAN SCRIPT
Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst
a right-to-left Semitic script, used by adherents of Manicheism to write texts in Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, Early New Persian, Bactrian, and Uighur (Old Turkish). It is closely related to the Palmyrene script of Aramaic and the Estrangelo script of Syriac.
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MANICHEISM
Multiple Authors
the religion founded by Mani, who regarded his doctrine not as the religion of a region, a state, or a chosen people, but as the completion of the preceding great religions of Christianity, Zoroastrianism, and Buddhism.
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MANICHEISM i. GENERAL SURVEY
Werner Sundermann
Manicheism is the only world religion that has become completely extinct. Its founder, Mani, lived in the third century CE. His religion spread over the continents from the Atlantic to the Chinese Sea.
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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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