Author
Shukrī Fūmishī, Muḥammad, 1971 or 1972-
Publication Date
2019
Publication Place
Leiden; Boston -
BRILL
Type
Book
Language
ara,eng,fas
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
University of Bielefeld Library
Record ID
991025814010106442
Date
2019
Notes
After its foundation by Mani in the third century CE, Manicheism spread quickly from Iran through the ancient world, from North Africa to Europe and from Central Asia to China. Mani wrote seven works, six in Syriac and one in Middle Persian. The spread of Manicheism led to the emergence of Manichean writings in a number of other languages, and also of texts in criticism or description of this religion by non-Manichean authors in some of these same languages, among them Greek, Latin, Coptic, Arabic, Soghdian, and Chinese. From among the archeological findings involving Manichean texts, one of the most exciting ones was the discovery, in the early nineteen hundreds, of many Manichean fragments in Turfan, in Xinjiang province, China. These are in Middle Persian, Parthian, Soghdian and Manichean New Persian, besides material in Uygur, Bactrian and Kuchean. The present work is a Persian manual for the interpretation, reconstruction and edition of these Turfan texts.
Baskı
1st ed.
İlgili kişiler
Shukrī-Fūmishī, Muḥammad
ISBN
9789004408074
900440807X