Rababi
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Rababi is a term used to refer to a player of the rabab instrument.
Guru Nanak (right) and Bhai Mardana (left) with rabab, c.1740 painting
Firandia-style Rabab
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Photograph titled 'Lute [rabab/rebec] Players [rababis] near the Golden Temple', taken on 28 January 1903. Kept in the Gertrude Bell collection of Newcastle University.
Photograph of a rababi of Nabha State holding a rabab
Guru Nanak
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Gurū Nānak, also known as Bābā Nānak, was an Indian spiritual teacher, mystic and poet, who is regarded as the founder of Sikhism and is the first of the ten Sikh Gurus.
Rababi
…forms, proliferated throughout West, Central, South and Southeast Asia. Those rababs used in Hindustani classical music of northern India are plucked. Guru Nanak started the Sikh rababi tradition by engaging Bhai Mardana as his accompanist. The Muslim singers formerly called mirasi, were rechristened rababi by…
19th-century mural painting from Gurdwara Baba Atal depicting Nanak
Pothi written by Guru Nanak
The Gurdwara Janam Asthan in Nankana Sahib, Pakistan, commemorates the site where Nanak is believed to have been born.
Line drawing of Guru Nanak as a child preaching to Pundit Gopal, by Gian Singh "Naqqash"