A Notice of Manichæan Persecution by the Sasanian King Kawād in the Fifth Christian Century

Interest in Manichæism, which was once a rival of Zoroastrianism and of Christianity, has been especially aroused in recent years through the discovery in the oasis of Turf an, Central Asia, of fragments of the writings of Mānī himself. Allusions to Mānī, who was a ‘Fiend Incarnate’ in the eyes of the Pahlavi writers, are nevertheless worth recording, from whatever source they may come.