# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mani
# Generated: 2026-09-01T13:02:46.683Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mani"
name: "Mani"
slug: "mani"
description: "He built a religion designed to replace all others — fusing Christ, Buddha, and Zoroaster into a cosmic war between light and dark. For three centuries Manichaeism spread from Roman North Africa to Tang China, then vanished almost completely."
tagline: "3rd century prophet and founder of Manichaeism"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mani%2C_the_prophet.jpg"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "0216-04-14"
deathDate: "0274-03-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.35
  historical:           24.369788
  currentAttention:     31.75
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "News Broadcasting"
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  - name: "Poetry"
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    title: "Mani (Religionsstifter)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "मानी"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ܡܐܢܝ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Mani was born around April 216 near Ctesiphon in Mesopotamia, then under Parthian rule. He wrote seven major works in Syriac and dedicated an eighth, in Middle Persian, to the Sasanian emperor Shapur I. His synthesis pulled from multiple traditions and claimed universal scope. Bahram I had him imprisoned in Gundeshapur, where he died — sources differ on whether it was March 2, 274, or February 26, 277. The faith he founded would outlive him by centuries before fading into obscurity.