Person
Mani
about 216–274
Founder of Manichaeism
Attested. Mani's life and the religion are well documented from both sides. He was not a Christian bishop.
Mani, from southern Mesopotamia, taught a sharply dualist religion of light and darkness and claimed to complete the messages of Buddha, Zoroaster, and Jesus. He was executed under the Persian king Bahram I. Christians from Augustine's youth onward treated Manichaeism as a rival, not as an internal church party. Augustine himself was a Manichaean hearer for nine years.
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Sources
No separate modern citation is attached to this biography. The confidence note is the atlas summary of the evidence.
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