Mani (kwa Kifarsi مانی, Māni; Ctesiphon (leo nchini Iraq), 216 – Gundeshapur (leo nchini Iran), 274 hivi) alikuwa mtu wa karne ya 3, aliyeanzisha dini ya Umani, ambayo kwa sasa haipo tena. Kati ya vitabu vyake muhimu zaidi ni saba. Wamandayo Injili ya Mani Arzhang Taraporewala, I.J.S., Manichaeism, Iran Chamber Society, retrieved 2015-01-12  Boyce, Mary (2001), Zoroastrians: their religious beliefs and practices, Routledge, p. 111, He was Iranian, of noble Parthian blood...  Ball, Warwick (2001), Rome in the East: the transformation of an empire, Routledge, p. 437, Manichaeism was a syncretic religion, proclaimed by the Iranian Prophet Mani . Sundermann, Werner (2009), "Mani, the founder of the religion of Manicheism in the 3rd century AD", Iranica, Sundermann, According to the Fehrest, Mani was of Arsacid stock on both his father’s and his mother’s sides, at least if the readings al-ḥaskāniya (Mani’s father) and al-asʿāniya (Mani’s mother) are corrected to al-aškāniya and al-ašḡāniya (ed. Flügel, 1862, p. 49, ll. 2 and 3) respectively.