TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reeves,John C.
TI  - Prolegomena to a history of Islamicate Manichaeism
T2  - Comparative Islamic Studies
SN  - 9781845538514 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BT1410 .R384 2011 
U1  - 299.932 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London
PB  - Equinox Publishing Ltd
KW  - Manichaeism -- Apologetic works -- Early works to 1800
KW  - Manichaeism -- History -- Sources
KW  - Manichaeism -- History
KW  - Manichaeism -- Relations
KW  - RELIGION / Gnosticism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Manichaeism
KW  - History
KW  - Relations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Cover; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations and Conventions; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chronological Arrangement of Authorities; Bibliography; Indices; Index of Citations of Primary Sources; Index of Ancient and Medieval Authors, Tradents, and Personages; Index of Scriptural and Parascriptural Characters; Index of Manichaeans and of Individuals Suspected or Accused of Zandaqa; Index of Modern Authors
N2  - Prolegomena to a History of Islamicate Manichaeism provides an annotated anthology of primary sources highlighting Manichaeism, a dualist religion emerging in Mesopotamia in the third century and which spread rapidly throughout the Roman and Sasanian empires until it was violently suppressed by both polities. It nevertheless continued to flourish - largely clandestinely - in the Near East, Central Asia, and China until it finally disappeared at the beginning of the seventeenth century. This book translates and assesses the importance of a number of Arabic, Persian, Syriac, and even Hebrew lang
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