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Founded by Mani (c. AD 216-276), a Syrian visionary of Judaeo-Christian background who lived in Persian Mesopotamia, Manichaeism spread rapidly into the Roman Empire in the third and fourth centuries AD and became one of the most persecuted heresies under Christian Roman emperors. The religion established missionary cells in Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Rome and has in Augustine of Hippo the most famous of its converts. The study of the religion in the Roman Empire has benefited from discoveries of genuine Manichaean texts from Medinet Madi and from the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt, as well as successful decipherment of the Cologne Mani-Codex which gives an autobiography of the founder in Greek. This 2004 book is a single-volume collection of sources for this religion, and draws from material mostly unknown to English-speaking scholars and students, offers in translation genuine Manichaean texts from Greek, Latin and Coptic.
Manichaeism --- Manichéisme --- Rome --- Religion. --- Religion --- 273.21 --- Manicheïsme --- 273.21 Manicheïsme --- Manichéisme --- Dualism (Religion) --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Christianity --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Manichaeism - Rome --- Rome - Religion
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New Light on Manichaeism provides the latest discoveries and insights into the Manichaean religion throughout its more than one thousand year history, ranging from glimpses into the life and thought of Mani himself, to developments in doctrine and practice in the religion's North African, Iranian, Central Asian, and Chinese settings. The volume includes contributions from the leading scholars in the field, offering new reconstructions of Manichaean literary and artistic productions, and innovative analyses of the religious, social, and political dynamics that shaped the rise and fall of this world religion.
Manichaeism --- 273.21 --- 273.21 Manicheïsme --- Manicheïsme --- Dualism (Religion) --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Christianity --- Conferences - Meetings --- Manichéisme --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Manichaeism - Congresses
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Discovered in 1929, the Manichaean Kephalaia have opened up an important window on the early development of Manichaean doctrine. This study identifies a significant redactional tendency whereby the compilers of the text sought to clarify ambiguities in “canonical” Manichaean tradition by means of five-part numerical series. This discovery challenges the conventional wisdom of Manichaean scholarship, which has long maintained that, since Mani recorded his own teachings in a series of what later became canonical writings, Manichaean doctrines were transmitted relatively unchanged from the master to successive generations of disciples. Since this assumption is now called into question, it now becomes necessary to re-evaluate received notions about the shape of both the Manichaean “canon” and “tradition.”
Manichaeism --- Manichaeism. --- 273.21 --- 273.21 Manicheïsme --- Manicheïsme --- Dualism (Religion) --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Christianity --- Symbolism of numbers. --- Five (The number) in literature. --- Manichéisme --- Symbolisme des nombres --- Cinq (Le nombre) dans la littérature --- Kephalaia. --- Five (The number) in literature --- Symbolism of numbers --- Number symbolism --- Sacred numbers --- Symbolic numbers --- Numerals
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Dans la période d'extraordinaire effervescence sociale et intellectuelle qu'a été, en Islam, le second siècle de l'Hégire, se détache, quelque peu en marge - et de façon très informelle -, une catégorie particulière de prétendus "mal-pensants", étrangement affublés du sobriquet de zanādiqa, pluriel de zindīq. La question des zanādiqa en pays d'Islam avait déjà fait, comme le rappelle Chokr, l'objet d'un certain nombre de travaux, dont notamment - le tout premier - l'article, justement célèbre, de Georges Vajda. Mais même l'article de Vajda (issu d'un mémoire de l'École Pratique des Hautes Etudes) demeurait très incomplet ; une étude détaillée, systématique, restait à faire. Melhem Chokr a donc entrepris, dans le cadre d'une thèse de doctorat - et à son entière initiative, je tiens à le préciser - de reprendre le dossier à fond, en exploitant au maximum toute la documentation disponible. Il l'a fait avec brio, et une minutie, un souci de ne rien laisser dans l'ombre, qui le conduit même parfois à déborder un tant soit peu son propos, mais dont le lecteur exigeant, je pense, n'aura pas lieu de se plaindre. Me sera-t-il permis d'ajouter ceci? Aujourd'hui, ce n'est pas sans quelque nostalgie que l'on se reporte à ces premiers siècles de l'Hégire, si vivants, marqués par l'extrême diversité des opinions, la hardiesse intellectuelle, une incroyable liberté de propos et de mœurs (en dépit des violences qui s'employaient à la réprimer). Un des intérêts de ce livre, et non le moindre, est de nous rappeler cette époque faste. Daniel GIMARET It is during the second Hegirian century, a period of extraordinary social and intellectual fertility in Islam, that a singular group of allegedly "wrong-thinking" people strangely dubbed with the nickname ofzanādiqa stood on the fringe of society. Yet the question ofzanādiqa in Islam, although the subject of numerous previous works, still remained incomplète. The author, relying on all the available documentation, thus embarked on a ...
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