The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2477 page)

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Thakur Si
gh Sandwalia
(president of Sikh movement):
Thanaw
ya
(Arab.,
than
, ‘reiterate, double’). Dualism, suspect in Islam because of its necessary
shirk
(association of anything as equal with God). Thanaw
ya was linked by Muslims with M
n
(Manichaeism), Mazdak (Zoroastrianism), and ibn Dai
n. The threat arose with the conquest of Persia.

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