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Manichaeans. During the early Abbasid period, the Manichaeans underwent persecution. The third Abbasid caliph, al-Mahdi, persecuted the Manichaeans,

The Manichaean script is an abjad-based writing system rooted in the Semitic family of alphabets and associated with the spread of Manichaeism from southwest

the 10th century AD. In the sixth century, there was a schism among Manichaeans between the Denawars and the see of Babylon, in response to persecution

script to write the known book Šābuhrāgān and it continued to be used by Manichaeans until the 9th century to write in Middle Persian, and in various other

century, some Chinese Manichaeans involved themselves with the Pure Land school of Mahayana Buddhism in southern China. Those Manichaeans practiced their rituals

Didactic Images of the Manichaeans from Sasanian Mesopotamia to Uygur Central Asia and Tang-Ming China. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies. Vol. 90. Leiden:

Eve's disobedience to God. Augustine had served as a "Hearer" for the Manichaeans for about nine years, who taught that the original sin was carnal knowledge

references to its circulation among, and use by, the Manichaeans. Further identification of the Manichaeans edition of The Book of Giants was revealed in 1971

Volume IV. The Anti-Manichaean Writings, The Anti-Donatist Writings Of the Morals of the Catholic Church. On the Morals of the Manichaeans. Concerning Two

the Old Turkic script. May have been used syncretically by manichaeans Turpan Manichaean texts Rui Chuanming (December 2014). "Manichaeism Dunhuang and