William Hewat McLeod | |
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Born | Feilding, New Zealand | 2 August 1932
Died | 20 July 2009 Dunedin, New Zealand | (aged 76)
Education | School of Oriental and African Studies |
Known for | Sikh theology and history |
Spouse | Margaret Wylie (m. 1955) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Historian |
Institutions | University of Otago, University of Toronto |
Thesis | The life and doctrine of Gurū Nānak (1965) |
William Hewat McLeod (1932–2009; also Hew McLeod) was a New Zealand scholar who helped establish Sikh Studies as a distinctive field.[1][2]
Considered to be the most prominent Western historian of Sikhism, his publications had introduced higher criticism to Sikh sources for the first time and influenced generations of scholars.[3][4][5] However, his scholarship remains controversial among traditional Khalsa scholars, who accuse him of disrespecting the religion and argue that Sikhism can't be studied using Western methodologies.[3][5][6]
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