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Author Mann, Gurinder Singh.

Title The making of Sikh scripture / Gurinder Singh Mann
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 193 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Note on Transliteration; 1 Sikhs and Their Scripture; The Adi Granth; The Early Sikh Community; The Plan of the Book; 2 Writings on Sikh Scripture: An Overview; Eighteenth-Century Accounts; Nineteenth-Century Accounts; Twentieth-Century Accounts; 3 The Beginning of the Scriptural Tradition; The Guru Harsahai Pothi; The Goindval Pothis; 4 The Expansion of the Scriptural Text; MS 1245; The Kartarpur Pothi; 5 Toward the Adi Granth; The Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts; The Adi Granth; 6 The Emerging Structure of the Adi Granth; Rag as the Organizing Principle of the Adi Granth
Evolution of the Structure of the Adi GranthThe Adi Granth and Other Scriptures; 7 The Adi Granth and the Issue of the Bhagat Bani; Date of Inclusion of the Bhagat Bani; The Purpose of Incorporation of the Bhagat Bani; The Selection and Evolution of the Corpus; The Status of the Bhagat Bani; 8 The Guru Granth Sahib; Three Centuries of Sikh Scriptural History; The Authority of the Adi Granth; Future Prospects; Notes; Glossary of Punjabi Terms; A; B; C; D; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; Y
Summary The Adi Granth - the primary scripture of the Sikhs - comprises approximately 3000 hymns. This work attempts to construct a comprehensive picture of the making of Sikh "canon", drawing on the recently discovered early manuscripts as well as the extensive secondary literature on the topic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-190) and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Ādi-Granth -- History
Ādi-Granth -- Criticism, Textual
Ādi-Granth fast
Subject Sikhism -- Sacred books -- History
RELIGION -- Sikhism.
Sikhism -- Sacred books
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780198029878
019802987X
0195130243
9780195130249
1423757572
9781423757573