batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l39207-l39250
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record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l39207-l39250
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER CVI. / ENTITLED, KOREISH;
REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 39207-39250
start: '39207'
end: '39250'
translation: The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: let them serve the LORD of this house; who supplieth them with food against
hunger, and hath rendered them secure from fear.
summary: Chapter CVI addresses the tribe of Koreish, mentions their uniting and
their winter and summer merchant caravans, and exhorts them to serve the Lord
of the house, who provides food and security. Sale's notes discuss links to the
preceding chapter, the ancestry of Koreish, and Hshem's institution of two yearly
caravans.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The chapter concerns the uniting of the tribe of Koreish.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The Koreish are associated with sending out a caravan of merchants and purveyors
in winter and summer.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The passage exhorts them to serve the Lord of this house.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The Lord is described as supplying them with food against hunger.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: The Lord is described as rendering them secure from fear.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:6
text: Sale's note reports an interpretation that the preceding chapter's destruction
of Abraha's army was for the uniting of the Koreish.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: 'Sale''s note says Hshem first appointed the two yearly caravans: one in winter
for Yaman and one in summer for Syria.'
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Koreish
description: The tribe addressed by the chapter; Sale's note identifies them as
a noble Arabian tribe and as the posterity of Fehr.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Lord of this house
description: The divine figure whom the Koreish are told to serve, described as
providing food and security.
role_refs:
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Hshem
description: Sale's note identifies Hshem as the great-grandfather of Mohammed and
says he first appointed the two yearly caravans.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Abraha's army
description: Mentioned in Sale's note as the army destroyed in the preceding chapter,
according to one interpretation connected with the uniting of Koreish.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
roles:
- id: role:1
label: united tribe
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The text speaks of the uniting of the tribe of Koreish.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: divine provider
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The Lord is said to supply food against hunger.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:3
label: divine protector
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The Lord is said to render them secure from fear.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: worshiping community
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The passage exhorts the Koreish to serve the Lord of this house.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:5
label: institutional founder of caravans
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Sale's note says Hshem first appointed the two yearly caravans.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:6
label: defeated hostile army in commentary
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Sale's note mentions the destruction of the army of Abraha in relation to
an interpretation of the chapter.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: the house
literal_form: '"this house"'
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: seasonal caravans
literal_form: caravan of merchants and purveyors in winter and summer
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: sym:3
label: food against hunger
literal_form: food supplied against hunger
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: security from fear
literal_form: being rendered secure from fear
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Uniting and seasonal caravans of Koreish
summary: The chapter introduces the uniting of Koreish and their sending out of
merchant caravans in winter and summer.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Exhortation to serve the Lord of the house
summary: The Koreish are told to serve the Lord of this house, who supplies food
and secures them from fear.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Commentarial explanation of the caravans
summary: Sale's note explains that Hshem appointed two yearly caravans, one in winter
to Yaman and one in summer to Syria.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Commentarial link to Abraha's army
summary: Sale's note records an interpretation connecting the chapter with the preceding
chapter, in which God destroyed Abraha's army for the uniting of Koreish.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Divine provision and protection of a community
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The passage describes the Lord as supplying food against hunger and rendering
the community secure from fear.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: The passage states provision and security directly; no broader narrative
development is present in this short chapter.
- id: motif:2
label: Sacred service in response to divine benefaction
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_exchange
basis: The exhortation to serve the Lord of the house is paired with divine acts
of feeding and securing the people.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: medium
cautions: The text does not present a formal bargain or covenant; the exchange-like
reading is inferred from the juxtaposition of service and benefaction.
- id: motif:3
label: Seasonal cycle of trade journeys
taxonomy_refs:
- seasonal_cycle
basis: The chapter and note describe recurring winter and summer caravans, with
destinations specified in the note.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: This is a historical or economic seasonal pattern rather than an explicit
mythic cycle of seasonal death, renewal, or cosmic order.
- id: motif:4
label: Communal unification associated with divine deliverance
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Sale's note reports an interpretation that God's destruction of Abraha's
army in the preceding chapter was for the uniting of Koreish.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: This motif depends on Sale's reported commentary rather than on the short
chapter text alone.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: Sale's note records a cautious intratextual connection between this chapter
and the preceding chapter, interpreting the destruction of Abraha's army as serving
the uniting of Koreish.
claim_level: same_function
target: preceding chapter's Abraha army episode
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The claim is reported as one interpretive option among others; it is
not asserted as the only reading.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 39207-39250, Chapter CVI opening verses
quote_or_summary: The text refers to "the uniting of the tribe of Koreish" and to
their caravan of merchants and purveyors "in winter and summer."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used for extraction evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 39207-39250, Chapter CVI closing verses
quote_or_summary: 'The text says: "let them serve the LORD of this house; who supplieth
them with food against hunger, and hath rendered them secure from fear."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used for extraction evidence.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 39207-39250, Sale note q
quote_or_summary: Sale's note says some connect the chapter with the preceding chapter,
reading God's destruction of Abraha's army as being for the uniting of Koreish;
it also describes the Koreish as descendants of Fehr in the line of Ismael.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction evidence.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 39207-39250, Sale note r
quote_or_summary: 'Sale''s note says Hshem, Mohammed''s great-grandfather, first
appointed the two yearly caravans: winter to Yaman and summer to Syria.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized for extraction evidence.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The basic figures and actions are explicit. Motif assignments are cautious
because the chapter is brief and some contextual details come from Sale's explanatory
notes. A stray note marked p about stones appears in the supplied line range but
belongs to adjacent material and was not used as central evidence for this chapter.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
Extraction uses only the supplied passage and metadata. Commentary in Sale's notes is distinguished from the chapter text.
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