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ELIJAH MUHAMMAD
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(d.
c.
160).
Founder of a Christian movement which was a rival to
Catholic
Christianity in the 2nd and 3rd cents.: he was excommunicated in 144. By the end of the 3rd cent. most Marcionite communities had been absorbed by
Manichaeism
.
Notable in his teaching (e.g. in his (lost)
Antitheses
) was the absolute opposition between the Old Testament with its wicked God and the God of Love revealed by Jesus. He therefore rejected the Old Testament, and from the New Testament admitted to his canon only the letters of Paul and an edited version of the gospel of Luke.

 
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(d.
c.
1535 CE).
Companion of Gur
N
nak
. Mard
n
was a Dom (Dum or Mir
s
), i.e. a musician of low-
caste
Muslim background. According to tradition Mard
n
played the
rab
b
, a stringed instrument, to accompany Gur
N
nak's
spiritual teaching, travelling with him to Indian centres of pilgrimage and to Arabia. Three
aloks
of the
di Granth
are attributed to Mard