JACKSON AVW (1938) The latest character away from Mani, the new maker off Manichaeism
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Log of one’s American Chinese language Society 58: 235-40. Going representations away from Mani otherwise Manes, c. 216-276 Le, is actually talked about, that have attention of your tradition detailed because of the al-Nadim (writing c. 987 Le) one Mani is lame in legs or perhaps in his best base. You to definitely heritage is backed by retranslation out of a phrase in the new Pahlavi Denkart (step three.2 hundred, 1-13) (pick Dinkard, above), applying the name ‘broken’ or ‘crippled’ to help you Mani (come across below, al-Nadim, Fihrist, pp. 773, 794).
Right here, predicated on Michael Dols, the guy talked about “real infirmities such as for instance skin problems, lameness, paralysis, and you can deafness and personal services particularly baldness, leanness, and ugliness
Al-JAHIZ (Abu Othman Amr bin Bahr). Al-Barsan wal-Argan wal-Umyan wal-Hawlan [The fresh new Lepers, new Lame, the new Blind, in addition to Squinting], ed. Abdel-Salam Haroun (1998). Cairo. Al-Jahiz (776-868) was a prolific, important and you will notably unappealing publisher which have ‘goggle eyes’ (jahiz), within Basra (today in the Iraq), whoever functions might have been far cited across the Arab world. (more…)