The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1546 page)

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Mimi shehui
(Jap.): see
SECRET SOCIETIES
.
Min
(Heb., ‘heretic’). Hebrew term for heretic or sectarian. A min can be a Jewish heretic or a
gentile
. It was Samuel ha-Katan in the late 1st cent. CE who composed the ‘
benediction
’ (i.e. imprecation) against the minim found in the
‘Amidah
, and this seems originally to have been directed against the Judaeo-Christians: see
BIRKAT HA-MINIM
.
M
(Pañj
b
, ‘a bull with horns inclined down along its face’, ‘deceitful’). Name given by
Bh
Gurd
s
to followers of
Prith
Chand
,
So
h
Miharb
n, and the latter's son, Harij
. The M
s, whose significance faded in the late 18th cent. CE, disputed the succession of Gur
Arjan Dev
.

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