Name: Nankana Sahib
Address: Nankana Sahib, Persia & Central Asia

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Guru Nanak

Guru Nanak (1469–1539), founder of Sikhism and the first of its ten Gurus, born at Talwandi (present-day Nankana Sahib) in the Punjab and died at Kartarpur, the town he founded. He taught Ik Onkar, the one God, and the equality of all people, and composed 974 hymns preserved in the Guru Granth Sahib. His life ran through the Muslim world around him: he studied Persian and Arabic under a maulvi, worked for Daulat Khan Lodi, was accompanied on his journeys by the Muslim musician Mardana, and is credited by the janamsakhi tradition — as tradition, its historicity disputed — with journeys to Mecca and Baghdad; the Sikh scripture also preserves the verses of the Muslim Sufi Fariduddin Ganjshakar. He is recorded here as an honoured contemporary who interacted with the Muslim world, not as a Muslim figure.

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