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Manichaeism (/ˌmænɪˈkiː.ɪzəm/; Persian: آئین مانی, romanized: Āʾīn-i Mānī; Chinese: 摩尼教; pinyin: Móníjiào) was a major world religion founded in the third century CE by the Parthian Iranian prophet Mani (216–274) in the Sasanian Empire. It taught an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good spiritual world of light, and an evil…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Manichaeism | Classification | Iranian religion | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manichaeism | Founder | Mani | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manichaeism | Language | Middle Persian, Classical Syriac, Parthian, Classical Latin, Classical Chinese, Old Uyghur language, Tocharian B, Sogdian language, Greek | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manichaeism | Origin | 3rd century AD Parthian Empire, Sasanian Empire | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manichaeism | Region | Historical: Europe, East Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, North Africa, Siberia | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manichaeism | Scripture | Manichaean scripture | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manichaeism | Separated from | Elcesaite sect, and the teachings of Jesus, Shakyamuni Buddha, and Zoroaster | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manichaeism | Separations | Chinese Manichaeism | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manichaeism | Theology | Dualistic | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manichaeism | Type | Universal religion | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manichaeism | is a | hypercorrection of Manichaism | 0.90 | text |
| the Red Turbans | instance of | contributing to sects | 0.80 | text |
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