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The Gardens Of Light | Amin Maalouf

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The Gardens Of Light | Amin Maalouf

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The story of Mani, the founder of Manichaeism.

An interesting picture of 3rd century Mesopotamia (now Iraq/Iran) as Mani tries to unite all of the religions of his time in a simple pacifistic belief system with support from the Emperor Shapur of the Sassanid dynasty but open hostility from the entrenched priesthood.

#BookedInTime
Shapur's war with Rome does get a couple of chapters

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The Gardens Of Light | Amin Maalouf

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Hour of the Witch | Chris Bohjalian

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The Gardens Of Light | Amin Maalouf

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#Lebanon #readingaroundtheworld #persia Written by a Lebanese born author, the fictional story chronicles the story of Mani, a prophet who preached the equality of mankind and the balance of light and darkness in everyone. In 240 AD, Mani came from Jewish Nazarene roots but combined Jesus‘ teachings with Buddhism and Zoroastrianism, the main faith in Persia. I knew nothing of the real Manichaeism religion or Persia so quite a bit of learning.