Summary This volume brings together the works of some of the best known and most established scholars in Gnostic and Manichaean studies, Iranologists and art historians. It contains two important and indispensable catalogues of Turfan texts and also studies covering topics such as cosmogony, hymnology and manuscript illumination. A number of Turfan texts in Sogdian and Uygur are published here for the first time. TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword Editors and contributors Sergio BASSO, Manichaean fragments related to the 'Barlaam and Ioasaph saga' Adam BENKATO, A Fragment of an Iranian Manichaean 'Oral Tradition' Fernando BERMEJO-RUBIO, Mani as a paradigm of the Manichaean Church in the Cologne Mani Codex ?ehnaz BI ER and Bet l ZBAY, The Lotus illustration in a Manichaean manuscript Iris COLDITZ, Strategies for success. Manichaeism under the early Sasanians Desmond DURKIN-MEISTERERNST, An update of Boyce's Catalogue of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian Eduard IRICINSCHI, How Do Wisdom, Law, and Revelation a Religion Make? Appropriation and Displacement in the 'Chapters of the Wisdom of My Lord Mani' Samuel N.C. LIEU, A catalogue of the Uygur Manichaean texts Enrico MORANO, Uygur in the Manichaean Sogdian texts in Manichaean script from the Berlin Turfan Collection Nicholas SIMS-WILLIAMS, The ?seven adversities? in a Manichaean Sogdian hymn Michel TARDIEU, La m taphore de l'auberge Peter ZIEME, ?Worte f r die Seele?. Altuigurische manich ische Fragmente with an appendix by Yutaka YOSHIDA