Note 1015 — Chapter XIII · MANES AND THE MANICHAEANS
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Al-Bîrûnî, Chron. p. 187, makes Manes the successor or continuator of Bardesanes and Marcion. This was certainly not so; but it was probably only from their followers that he derived any acquaintance with Christianity. See n. 7, p. 280 supra. So Muhammad or Mahommed, four centuries later, drew his ideas of the same faith from the heretics of his day.