Mani
Male, Deceased Person
0216 – 0276
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Who was Mani?
Mani, of Iranian origin, was the prophet and the founder of Manichaeism, a gnostic religion of Late Antiquity which was once widespread but is now extinct. Mani was born in or near Seleucia-Ctesiphon in Parthian Babylonia, at the time still part of the Parthian Empire. Six of his major works were written in Syriac Aramaic, and the seventh, dedicated to the king of the empire, Shapur I, was written in Middle Persian, his native language. He died in Gundeshapur, under the Sassanid Empire.
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- Born
- Apr 14, 0216
Ctesiphon - Ethnicity
- Iranian peoples
- Died
- 0276
Gundeshapur
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on July 23, 2013
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