S1E7: Sufi Teachings In The Sikh Holy Book

Several verses of Sufi saint Baba Farid are found in the holy book of the Sikhs. These are called Farid Bani.
This episode of HistoryChatter deals with some questions around this surprising convergence of Islam and Sikhism.

Who was Baba Farid?
Did he himself write the verses attributed to him?
Who admitted those verses into the Granth Sahib and why?
Is their language more important than which religious tradition they belong to?
What do historians think about these questions?

We conclude that anomalies such as this show that religions were not strictly bounded in terms of doctrinal of ritual exclusivity until the late nineteenth century in India.

 

Hosted by Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay 
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