Nānak

by Fenech, Louis E.

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Nānak (873–946/1469–1539) was the first of ten personal Sikh gurū s (teachers). Gurū Nānak was born on the Panjāb frontier, where Indic and Islamicate cultures interacted intimately. Nānak’s ideas, like those of the many exponents of the nirguńa sampradaya or Sant tradition of northern India with whom Nānak is often aligned in contemporary scholarship, thus bore striking affinities to both Islamic and Hindu traditions. While Nānak was not the first whose ideas demonstrated such connections, he …

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Nānak (873–946/1469–1539) was the first of ten personal Sikh gurū s (teachers). Gurū Nānak was born on the Panjāb frontier, where Indic and Islamicate cultures interacted intimately. Nānak’s ideas, like those of the many exponents of the nirguńa sampradaya or Sant tradition of northern India with whom Nānak is often aligned in contemporary scholarship, thus bore striking affinities to both Islamic and Hindu traditions. While Nānak was not the first whose ideas demonstrated such connections, he was the most remarkable, in that he refracted his cultural

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei3637

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eng Islam

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Fenech, Louis E.

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