Author: Pashaura Singh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 318
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0-19-566334-9
Description
The Guru Granth Sahib explores the concept of scripture from the Sikh perspective and seeks to understand the processes of canon formation and those by which meaning and authority are vested in the Adi Granth.
This exciting volume will be useful for specialists in religious, scriptural and Sikh studies, and of immense values for general readers interested in the roots of canonical meaning and authority in the Sikh tradition in particular, and religions in general.
REVIEW
A delightful and scholarly book that will no doubt be consulted even after fifty years…it provides an analysis of revelation and of sacred scripture as a canon… It tries to understand the process of canon formation in the Sikh tradition; because of its relevance to other scriptures as well, the interest of this study goes far beyond the Sikh scripture.
-International Journal of Panjab Studies
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgements
Notes on Orthography
Glossary
SECTION ONE
CANON
1 Introduction
2 A Survey of Early Manuscripts
3 Textual Analysis
4 Raga Organization of the Adi Granth
5 Guru Arjan's Editorial Pe