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  "en": "Encyclopaedia Britannica — Guru Nanak"
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  "ar": "ترجمة غورو ناناك في موسوعة بريتانيكا؛ تصفه نصًا بأنه مؤسس السيخية وأول غورواتها، وتشكك في يوم ميلاده ⁦(15 أبريل؟ 1469)⁩ وتذكر انقسام التقليد في سنة وفاته بين 1538 و1539 مرجحة 1539، وتعامل رحلاته إلى بغداد ومكة بوصفها من الحكايات المتأخرة.",
  "en": "Encyclopaedia Britannica's biography of Guru Nanak; it describes him in terms as the revered founder and first Guru of Sikhism, marks his birth day uncertain (April 15?, 1469), reports the tradition divided between 1538 and 1539 for his death with 1539 the more likely, and treats his Baghdad and Mecca journeys as later hagiographical tradition."
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  "title": "Guru Nanak",
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    "given": ""
   }
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  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     1998,
     7,
     20
    ]
   ]
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  "publisher": "Encyclopaedia Britannica",
  "URL": "https://www.britannica.com/biography/Guru-Nanak",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Scholarly encyclopedia biography (published 20 July 1998, the standard date carried by Britannica's biographies in this museum), read in full online on 1 November 2026. An editorial source independent of Wikipedia: its statement that Nanak 'is revered as the founder and the first Guru of Sikhism' is, with the English Wikipedia article's lead, one of the two independent attestations on which the record's documented sikh segment rests. It is candid about the evidence: what is known comes mainly through janamsakhi legend, neither the route nor the places of his travels can be positively identified, and the tales of visits to Baghdad and Mecca are among the earlier posthumous traditions.",
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  "status": {
   "review": "published",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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