The [[Edumean]] sect of '''Messianic Sadducees''' began in [[Tachkastan]] with a [[Sadducee]] called [[Mahmet son of Ishmaelthe Ishmaelite]] who adopted certain [[Manichean]] ideas about [[Rebbe Yehoshua Minzaret]] and the [[Mishnah]] which Rebbe Yehoshua Minzaret promoted. ==Background==Mahmet the Ishmaelite was originally a Sadducee warlord who brutally suppressed the Christians