Abbasids
הגרים המניכאיים
HaGarim HaManichayim (the Manichean Proselytes) were a Messianic-Noahite movement established by Ibn Abi Kabsha an Ishmaelite-Sadducee in a 7thC.CE Sassanian realm of Manicheans (Hanifs).
Ibn Abi Kabsha tried to establish unity between those who kept the Laws of Moses and those who accepted the 1stC. Romaniote Rabbi Jesus as Messiah. However, the Sassanian Manicheans (Hanifs) were not impressed by him because he respected the Old Testament while the Ishmaelite-Sadducees were not impressed by him because he accepted Jesus as Messiah. When people first heard his ideas they used to say that he had become a Tsabi -a type of Persian Messianic Hebrew later described in Islam as part way between Nestorians, Persians and Jews and from which Manicheism itself had originally emerged.
In time his ideas were adopted by a Sadducee warlord called Emir Ambrus who together with Abu Turab and Salman of Fars devised some religious materials for the Manichean Proselytes. These materials were assembled into a religious Tome by the next ruler, a Manichean Proselyte called Emir Tashik.
