Arjan

(born 1581—died 1606) Fifth Guru of the Sikhs (1581–1606) and its first martyr. He compiled the volume of Sikh scripture on which the Adi Granth is based, and he completed the Golden Temple at Amritsar, India. The first Guru to serve as both temporal and spiritual head of Sikhism, he built up Amritsar as a commercial centre and enlarged missionary efforts. He was also a prolific poet and writer of hymns. He prospered under the tolerant Mughal emperor Akbar but was tortured to death by Akbar's successor for not altering the Adi Granth to remove passages that gave offense to Hinduism or Islam.

Arjan De Haan's arguments about "modernity" are largely unhinged from research evidence, but he does show that migrants to Titagarh in Calcutta retain rural connections that diverge by region, gender (in a decidedly second-wave feminist or universal-binary sense of gender), generation, religion and caste, though with little ethnographic or historical elaboration on these concepts.

Migration, Modernity and Social Transformation in South Asia by Chari, Sharad / Pacific Affairs

Arjan El Fassed, a Dutch-Palestinian political scientist, human rights activist and affiliate of the Palestine Right to Return Coalition (Al-Awda), rejects the Israeli notion that the PA and parents send their children to die.

Palestinian children: caught in the crossfire by Dadoo, Suraya / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

24) by Charles Brewer in "Defrosted Architecture: The Incommensurability of Dufay's 'Nuper Rosarum Flares' and Brunelleschi's Work far Santa Maria del Fiore," a paper read at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Austin, 1989; by Smith, 94; and by Arjan R.

Architecture and Music Reunited: A New Reading of Dufay's Nuper ... by TRACHTENBERG, MARVIN / Renaissance Quarterly

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