Mani

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 sabaHenning, W.B., The Book of Giants, BSOAS, Vol. XI, Part 1, 1943, pp. 52–74: "...Mani, who was brought up and spent most of his life in a province of the Persian empire, and whose mother belonged to a famous Parthian family, did not make any use of the Iranian mythological tradition.  There can no longer be any doubt that the Iranian names of Sām, Narīmān, etc., that appear in the Persian and Sogdian versions of the Book of the Giants, did not figure in the original edition, written by Mani in the Syriac language.". 

Tazama pia
Wamandayo
Injili ya Mani
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Tanbihi

Marejeo
 Asmussen, Jes Peter, comp., Manichaean Literature: Representative Texts, Chiefly from Middle Persian and Parthian Writings, 1975, Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, .
Alexander Böhlig, 'Manichäismus' in: Theologische Realenzyklopädie 22 (1992),  25–45.
 Amin Maalouf, The Gardens of Light [Les Jardins de Lumière], translated from French by Dorothy S. Blair, 242 p. (Interlink Publishing Group, New York, 2007). 

Viungo vya nje
 Manichaeist art - University of Washington
 "Mani and Manichaeism in the J.R.Ritman Library" 
 The Book of the Giants by W.B. Henning, 1943
 Acta Archelai

Category:Waliozaliwa 216
Category:Waliofariki 274
Jamii:Manabii
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