Mcleod who is a sikh

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Conferences and sabbaticals allowed Hew to travel widely in the late s and 80s. In , during one of these trips, he suffered a stroke. This would later impede his ability to lecture and argue ex tempore , though he continued to write, opening up new aspects of Sikhism to scholarly assessment, from popular art through to women in Sikh tradition.

He produced an indispensable Historical Dictionary of Sikhism and edited Textual Sources for the Study of Sikhism , as well as publishing several surveys of the religion. For five years from , he taught for one term annually at the University of Toronto, where he supervised PhDs by Louis Fenech and Pashaura Singh, leading figures in the field today. Hew was renowned for his openness and his readiness to answer any question and to read any manuscript.

This generosity, together with his precocious embrace of email, placed him at the centre of an international scholarly community. WH McLeod.

He introduced Western methodology, contributed much himself, and questioned and challenged traditional Sikh lore. With a jolt, Sikh scholars were brought face to face with the need for application of rigorous western objectivity to the study of Sikh religious tradition.

Hew McLeod will be remembered for his catalytic role in promoting Sikh studies in the West. He will also be remembered for creating more controversy about the authenticity of some parts of Sikh religious tradition than any other Western scholar in the 20th Century. In fact, the controversy itself has contributed to that recognition by raising the standard of Sikh studies in response to McLeod desire to separate fiction from historical fact.

Cunningham clearly showed that the Sikh nation arose out of the founding ideology of Guru Nanak which unfolded as the Sikh miri-piri tradition up to the time of Guru Gobind Singh over a period of over years spanning ten human Guruships. To quote,. Hew McLeod wrote extensively about Sikh religious.