Comparative mythology corpus

batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l464-l591

batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l464-l591

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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg-l464-l591
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
passage_locator:
  label: SELECTED ANECDOTES / FROM THE WORK ENTITLED / THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS / CHAPTER
    I.; lines 464-591
  start: '464'
  end: '591'
  translation: The Mesnevi
  notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
    human review required.
canonical_text:
  quote: ''
  summary: The passage recounts the ancestry, dream-sanctioned marriage, birth, learning,
    public authority, renunciation, departure, prophetic warnings, travels, and settlements
    of Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled, including his rejection of rule and gifts, his rebukes
    to rulers, and reports of the Mongol destruction of Balkh.
  language: English
  quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
  text: Four people are said to have received dream warnings from Muhammed that Jelālu-’d-Dīn
    Huseyn should wed the princess Melika’i-Jihān.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:2
  text: A son, Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Muhammed, later commonly called Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled,
    is born nine months after the marriage.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:3
  text: When adolescent, Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled is described as extremely learned and
    rejects his mother’s family’s wish to raise him to kingship.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: obs:4
  text: Three hundred learned men of Balkh are said to receive the same divine command
    in an identical dream and confer on him the title Sultānu-’l-‘Ulemā.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: obs:5
  text: Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled preaches against the innovations of the king and courtiers
    and urges study and practice of the precepts of Islām.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: obs:6
  text: Courtiers accuse Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled of designs on the throne, and the king
    offers him sovereignty.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: obs:7
  text: Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled answers that he has no concern with earthly greatness
    and is a poor recluse, and he agrees to leave the country.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: obs:8
  text: Before leaving Balkh, Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled publicly foretells the coming of
    the Moguls, the overthrow of the kingdom, the destruction of Balkh, and the king’s
    later death.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: obs:9
  text: The passage explicitly compares his leaving Balkh with Muhammed’s flight from
    Mekka to Medīna.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: obs:10
  text: People along his road are said to meet and honor him, sometimes after hearing
    of his approach or being forewarned in dreams.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: obs:11
  text: In Bagdād, Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled refuses money sent by the Caliph, calling it
    unlawfully acquired, and also refuses to visit the Caliph.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
- id: obs:12
  text: Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled preaches in the great mosque in the Caliph’s presence
    and warns him of approaching slaughter by the Moguls.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
- id: obs:13
  text: The passage reports news of the siege, capture, and destruction of Balkh by
    a Mongol army commanded by Jengīz.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: obs:14
  text: Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled travels from Bagdād to Mekka, performs the greater pilgrimage,
    then continues to Damascus, Malatia, Erzinjān, and Larenda.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
  - ev:13
- id: obs:15
  text: Near Erzinjān he stays four years at a college built for him by the saintly
    lady ‘Ismet Khātūn; later he stays about seven years at the head of a college
    in Larenda.
  category: setting
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
figures:
- id: fig:1
  name_or_label: "‘Alā’u-’d-Dīn Muhammed, Khurrem-Shāh"
  description: King of Khurāsān and father of Melika’i-Jihān; described as proud and
    handsome.
  role_refs:
  - role:1
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: fig:2
  name_or_label: Melika’i-Jihān
  description: Daughter of the king of Khurāsān, given in marriage to Jelālu-’d-Dīn
    Huseyn; mother of Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled.
  role_refs:
  - role:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:13
- id: fig:3
  name_or_label: Jelālu-’d-Dīn Huseyn el Khatībī
  description: Virtuous and learned descendant of Abū-Bekr, surrounded by disciples,
    who marries Melika’i-Jihān and fathers Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled.
  role_refs:
  - role:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: fig:4
  name_or_label: Muhammed, Prince of the Apostles of God
  description: Appears as the authority in dreams warning that the marriage should
    take place; later referenced as the prophet who fled from Mekka to Medīna.
  role_refs:
  - role:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:7
- id: fig:5
  name_or_label: Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Muhammed / Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled
  description: Son born from the dream-sanctioned marriage; later extremely learned,
    given the title Sultānu-’l-‘Ulemā, a preacher, recluse, traveler, and religious
    authority.
  role_refs:
  - role:5
  - role:6
  - role:7
  - role:8
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:2
  - ev:3
  - ev:4
  - ev:5
  - ev:6
  - ev:9
  - ev:10
  - ev:12
  - ev:13
- id: fig:6
  name_or_label: Three hundred learned men of Balkh
  description: Learned men who receive an identical dream command, confer the title
    Sultānu-’l-‘Ulemā on Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled, and become his disciples.
  role_refs:
  - role:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: fig:7
  name_or_label: Courtiers opposing Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled
  description: Courtiers who malign him to the king and accuse him of designs on the
    throne.
  role_refs:
  - role:10
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: fig:8
  name_or_label: Jelālu-’d-Dīn, son of Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled
  description: Son of Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled, said to be five years old when his father
    left Balkh.
  role_refs:
  - role:11
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: fig:9
  name_or_label: "‘Alā’u-’d-Dīn, elder brother of Jelālu-’d-Dīn"
  description: Elder brother of Jelālu-’d-Dīn, said to be seven years old when Bahā’u-’d-Dīn
    Veled left Balkh.
  role_refs:
  - role:11
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: fig:10
  name_or_label: Sheykh Shahābu-’d-Dīn ‘Umer Suherverdī
  description: Eminent man of Bagdād deputed by the Caliph to honor Bahā’u-’d-Dīn
    Veled; he hosts him as a guest.
  role_refs:
  - role:12
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: fig:11
  name_or_label: Caliph Musta’zim
  description: Caliph who sends gifts to Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled and is rebuked and warned
    by him.
  role_refs:
  - role:13
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
  - ev:9
  - ev:10
- id: fig:12
  name_or_label: Moguls / Mongol army
  description: Invading force foretold by Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled and later reported to
    have destroyed Balkh.
  role_refs:
  - role:14
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  - ev:11
- id: fig:13
  name_or_label: Jengīz
  description: Commander of the Mongol army reported to have destroyed Balkh; Bahā’u-’d-Dīn
    Veled later hears of his death at Malatia.
  role_refs:
  - role:14
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
  - ev:12
- id: fig:14
  name_or_label: "‘Ismet Khātūn"
  description: Saintly lady, wife of the local sovereign Melik Fakhru-’d-Dīn, who
    builds a college for Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled near Erzinjān.
  role_refs:
  - role:15
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
roles:
- id: role:1
  label: king and father of bride
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: The passage identifies him as king of Khurāsān and father of Melika’i-Jihān.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: role:2
  label: princess and mother
  assigned_to:
  - fig:2
  basis: She is given in marriage and later identified as Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled’s mother.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:13
- id: role:3
  label: learned father and disciple-master
  assigned_to:
  - fig:3
  basis: He is described as virtuous and learned, surrounded by disciples, and as
    father of Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: role:4
  label: dream authority and prophetic comparison figure
  assigned_to:
  - fig:4
  basis: Muhammed appears as the source of dream warnings and is later invoked as
    the model for flight from one city to another.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:7
- id: role:5
  label: learned holy man
  assigned_to:
  - fig:5
  basis: The passage describes Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled as extremely learned and as receiving
    the title Sultan of the Doctors of the Law.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:3
- id: role:6
  label: renouncer of sovereignty
  assigned_to:
  - fig:5
  basis: He rejects elevation to a throne and later says he has no concern with earthly
    greatness.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:5
- id: role:7
  label: prophetic warner
  assigned_to:
  - fig:5
  basis: He foretells the destruction of Balkh and warns the Caliph of approaching
    slaughter by the Moguls.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  - ev:10
- id: role:8
  label: pilgrim and migrant teacher
  assigned_to:
  - fig:5
  basis: The passage traces his departure from Balkh, pilgrimage to Mekka, and later
    residence at colleges.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:12
  - ev:13
- id: role:9
  label: collective legitimating scholars
  assigned_to:
  - fig:6
  basis: They confer the honorific title on Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled after receiving the
    same dream command.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: role:10
  label: accusers
  assigned_to:
  - fig:7
  basis: They malign Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled and call him an intriguer.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: role:11
  label: children accompanying departure context
  assigned_to:
  - fig:8
  - fig:9
  basis: Their ages are given at the time Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled left Balkh.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: role:12
  label: host and official greeter
  assigned_to:
  - fig:10
  basis: He is deputed to honor Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled and becomes his host.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: role:13
  label: rebuked ruler
  assigned_to:
  - fig:11
  basis: He sends gifts that are refused and hears Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled’s rebuke and
    warning.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
  - ev:10
- id: role:14
  label: destroying invaders
  assigned_to:
  - fig:12
  - fig:13
  basis: The Mongol army under Jengīz is reported to have captured and destroyed Balkh.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: role:15
  label: patron of a religious college
  assigned_to:
  - fig:14
  basis: She is said to have built a college for Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled near Erzinjān.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
symbols:
- id: sym:1
  label: dream command
  literal_form: Warnings and commands received in dreams by named individuals and
    groups
  associated_figures:
  - fig:3
  - fig:4
  - fig:5
  - fig:6
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:3
  - ev:8
- id: sym:2
  label: rejected throne
  literal_form: Proposed elevation to kingship or sovereignty refused by Bahā’u-’d-Dīn
    Veled
  associated_figures:
  - fig:5
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:5
- id: sym:3
  label: honorific title
  literal_form: The title Sultānu-’l-‘Ulemā conferred by learned men
  associated_figures:
  - fig:5
  - fig:6
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: sym:4
  label: refused wealth
  literal_form: Money, horses, and valuables sent by the Caliph and refused by Bahā’u-’d-Dīn
    Veled
  associated_figures:
  - fig:5
  - fig:11
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
  - ev:10
- id: sym:5
  label: destroyed city
  literal_form: Balkh destroyed with mosques, Qur’ān copies, scholars, students, and
    inhabitants
  associated_figures:
  - fig:5
  - fig:12
  - fig:13
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  - ev:11
- id: sym:6
  label: pilgrimage route
  literal_form: Travel from Bagdād to Mekka for the greater pilgrimage and onward
    through other cities
  associated_figures:
  - fig:5
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
  - ev:13
scenes:
- id: scene:1
  label: Dream-sanctioned marriage and birth
  summary: The king gives Melika’i-Jihān to Jelālu-’d-Dīn Huseyn after several people
    receive a dream warning attributed to Muhammed; nine months later Bahā’u-’d-Dīn
    Veled is born.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  - fig:2
  - fig:3
  - fig:4
  - fig:5
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: scene:2
  label: Adolescent learning and rejected kingship
  summary: Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled is described as extremely learned and refuses his maternal
    family’s wish to raise him to the throne.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:5
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: scene:3
  label: Collective dream and title conferral
  summary: Three hundred learned men of Balkh receive the same dream command, confer
    the title Sultānu-’l-‘Ulemā on Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled, and become his disciples.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:5
  - fig:6
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  - sym:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: scene:4
  label: Conflict with rulers and voluntary departure
  summary: Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled preaches against royal and courtly innovations, is
    accused of intrigue, refuses sovereignty, and agrees to leave the country.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:5
  - fig:7
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  - ev:5
- id: scene:5
  label: Public prophecy before leaving Balkh
  summary: Before leaving Balkh with about forty people, Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled publicly
    predicts Mongol conquest, the destruction of Balkh, and the king’s later fate.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:5
  - fig:12
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  - ev:7
- id: scene:6
  label: Honored approach to Bagdād
  summary: People along the road come to meet and honor Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled; in Bagdād,
    Sheykh Suherverdī receives him on behalf of the Caliph and hosts him.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:5
  - fig:10
  - fig:11
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:8
- id: scene:7
  label: Refusal and rebuke of the Caliph
  summary: Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled refuses the Caliph’s gifts, declines to visit him,
    preaches in the mosque in his presence, reproaches his conduct, and warns him
    of Mongol slaughter.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:5
  - fig:11
  - fig:12
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
  - ev:10
- id: scene:8
  label: Report of Balkh’s destruction
  summary: Before Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled leaves Bagdād, news arrives that Balkh has been
    captured and destroyed by the Mongol army commanded by Jengīz.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:5
  - fig:12
  - fig:13
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: scene:9
  label: Pilgrimage and residence at colleges
  summary: Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled travels to Mekka for the greater pilgrimage and then
    through several cities, later residing at colleges near Erzinjān and in Larenda.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:5
  - fig:14
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:6
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
  - ev:13
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
  label: Dream-sanctioned sacred marriage and birth
  taxonomy_refs:
  - sacred_birth
  basis: Multiple named people receive dream warnings attributed to Muhammed that
    a marriage should occur, and a son is born from that union nine months later.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The birth is not described as miraculous in itself; the sacred element
    is the dream authorization of the marriage.
- id: motif:2
  label: Collective revelatory legitimation of a holy teacher
  taxonomy_refs:
  - wisdom
  basis: Three hundred learned men receive an identical dream command, confer a learned
    title on Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled, and become his disciples.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  confidence: high
  cautions: The available taxonomy has no exact entry for collective dream legitimation;
    wisdom is used because the passage centers on learned religious authority.
- id: motif:3
  label: Renunciation of earthly kingship and wealth
  taxonomy_refs:
  - mystical_quest
  basis: Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled refuses elevation to kingship, calls himself a poor recluse,
    and refuses the Caliph’s money and valuables.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:5
  - ev:9
  - ev:10
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The passage presents renunciation and religious authority, but does not
    narrate an interior quest in detail.
- id: motif:4
  label: Holy departure before catastrophe
  taxonomy_refs:
  - departure
  basis: Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled leaves Balkh after conflict with rulers and before the
    reported Mongol destruction of the city.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  - ev:6
  - ev:7
  - ev:11
  confidence: high
  cautions: The departure is historically and hagiographically framed; the passage
    does not state that departure itself causes salvation for all companions beyond
    their leaving.
- id: motif:5
  label: Prophetic warning of ruler and city destruction
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_judgment
  basis: Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled foretells Mongol devastation of Balkh and warns the Caliph
    of approaching slaughter after reproaching his conduct.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The passage frames the warnings as fulfilled or impending, but does not
    explicitly call the disasters divine judgment.
- id: motif:6
  label: Pilgrimage and wandering saintly teacher
  taxonomy_refs:
  - mystical_quest
  - departure
  basis: After departing Balkh, Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled travels through major religious
    and political centers, performs the greater pilgrimage at Mekka, and later leads
    colleges.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
  - ev:13
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The travel itinerary is explicit, while the inner spiritual significance
    is not elaborated in this excerpt.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
  claim: The passage itself likens Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled’s departure from Balkh to Muhammed’s
    flight from Mekka to Medīna, suggesting a same-function pattern of sanctified
    departure under pressure.
  claim_level: same_function
  target: Muhammed’s flight from Mekka to Medīna
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  counter_evidence_refs: []
  confidence: high
  limitations: The comparison is stated by the passage, but details of Muhammed’s
    flight are not narrated here and should not be expanded from outside sources.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
  type: summary
  locator: lines 464-500
  quote_or_summary: The king gives Melika’i-Jihān to Jelālu-’d-Dīn Huseyn after the
    king, bride, groom, and vazir are warned in a dream by Muhammed; nine months later
    Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Muhammed is born.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:2
  type: summary
  locator: lines 501-504
  quote_or_summary: When adolescent, Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled is extremely learned; his
    mother’s family wishes to raise him to the throne, but he rejects it.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:3
  type: summary
  locator: lines 505-510
  quote_or_summary: Three hundred learned men of Balkh receive the same divine command
    in an identical dream, confer the title Sultānu-’l-‘Ulemā on him, and become his
    disciples.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:4
  type: summary
  locator: lines 515-519
  quote_or_summary: In A.H. 605 Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled preaches against innovations of
    the king and courtiers, criticizes philosophers and rationalists, and urges Islamic
    practice.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:5
  type: summary
  locator: lines 519-526
  quote_or_summary: Courtiers accuse him of intrigue; the king offers him sovereignty;
    Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled says he has no concern with earthly greatness, is a poor recluse,
    and will leave the country.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:6
  type: summary
  locator: lines 527-532
  quote_or_summary: Before the king and people in the great mosque, Bahā’u-’d-Dīn
    Veled foretells the coming of the Moguls, overthrow of the kingdom, destruction
    of Balkh, expulsion of the king, and the king’s later death.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:7
  type: quote
  locator: lines 533-535
  quote_or_summary: "“So he left Balkh, as the prophet (Muhammed) had fled from Mekka
    to Medīna.” His sons’ ages are then given as five and seven."
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; brief quotation from supplied passage.
- id: ev:8
  type: summary
  locator: lines 536-543
  quote_or_summary: People along the road, sometimes forewarned in dreams, come to
    honor him; near Bagdād he is met by Sheykh Suherverdī, deputed by the Caliph,
    and becomes the Sheykh’s guest.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:9
  type: summary
  locator: lines 544-547
  quote_or_summary: The Caliph sends three thousand sequins; Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled refuses
    them as unlawfully acquired and also refuses to visit the Caliph.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:10
  type: summary
  locator: lines 547-553
  quote_or_summary: He preaches in the great mosque with the Caliph present, reproaches
    the Caliph’s conduct, warns of slaughter by the Moguls, and again refuses rich
    presents.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:11
  type: summary
  locator: lines 554-562
  quote_or_summary: Before he leaves Bagdād, news arrives of the siege, capture, and
    destruction of Balkh by a Mongol army commanded by Jengīz, including destruction
    of mosques and Qur’ān copies and mass killings.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:12
  type: summary
  locator: lines 563-571
  quote_or_summary: Bahā’u-’d-Dīn Veled goes from Bagdād to Mekka, performs the greater
    pilgrimage, proceeds to Damascus and Malatia, and hears there of Jengīz’s death.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
- id: ev:13
  type: summary
  locator: lines 580-591
  quote_or_summary: He remains four years near Erzinjān at a college built by ‘Ismet
    Khātūn, then moves to Larenda and remains about seven years at the head of a college,
    with his mother still with him.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/mesnevi-book-1-redhouse.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summary generated from supplied passage.
confidence:
  extraction: high
  motif_candidates: medium
  comparison_claims: high
  notes: The narrative sequence, figures, and stated comparison are explicit in the
    supplied passage. Motif taxonomy assignments are cautious because several passage
    patterns do not have exact available taxonomy labels.
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: |-
  Only supplied passage and metadata were used. No external historical or doctrinal details were added.
  batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
  custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-rumi-mesnevi-book-1-redhouse-gutenberg__l464-l591
  passage_sha256=0ec1f8331d3e874865d057e618313fbf8252e2d97cae6ba0c1391adc2a0789a8