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Guru Nanak  

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  • Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh tradition, was one of several important religious figures in medieval North India. His ideas are seen to have emerged from a creative interaction between indigenous Hindu beliefs and those that came with Islam to the Indian subcontinent beginning in 1000 CE. Unlike other contemporary figures, however, Guru Nanak established a community of followers (Sikhs) whose lives were centered on his spiritual ideals. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Guru Nanak (1469–1539)]

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  • 1469-1539

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