Gurinder Singh Mann's Canon Formation in the Sikh Tradition, hosted as a PDF by his own Global Institute for Sikh Studies, was originally published as a chapter in Sikh Religion, Culture and Ethnicity, edited by Christopher Shackle and others, Curzon Press, 2001. Mann, a specialist in Sikh scripture who held the Sikh studies chair at UC Santa Barbara, examines the making of the Adi Granth compiled by Guru Arjan and the Kartarpur manuscript debate over its status as the original volume. Its strength is that it is a peer-reviewed scholarly chapter by a leading specialist, here made freely available through the author's own institute. Its limit is that the Kartarpur manuscript's authenticity remains a live scholarly and community dispute, so a claim treating it as settled needs to be corrected against that disagreement.
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Gurinder Singh Mann is a recognized academic specialist in Sikh studies; though published through a specialist institute rather than a university press, the work is his own peer-reviewed-standard scholarship on scripture formation, treated at the top tier. NotesScholarly study of the making of the Sikh scripture: the 1604 Adi Granth compiled by Guru Arjan, the Kartarpur manuscript held by the Sodhi family of Kartarpur near Jalandhar, and the scholarly debate over its status as the original volume.
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AuthorGurinder Singh Mann
PublisherGlobal Institute for Sikh Studies
Publication Year2001
URLhttps://giss.org/mann/canon_formation_in_the_sikh_tradition.pdf
Source TypeEssay
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This source names Global directly: "Tradition, hosted as a PDF by his own Global Institute for Sikh Studies, was originally published as a chapter in Sikh Religion, Culture and Ethnicity, edited by Christopher Shackle and others..."
This source names Guru Arjan directly: "making of the Adi Granth compiled by Guru Arjan and the Kartarpur manuscript debate over its status as the original volume."
This source names Kartarpur directly: "Granth compiled by Guru Arjan and the Kartarpur manuscript debate over its status as the original volume."
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- Denominations, 2 claims: 1 connected, 1 general references.
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