batch.motif.sufi-persian-mystics-rumi-davis-gutenberg-l65-l114
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-persian-mystics-rumi-davis-gutenberg-l65-l114
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
passage_locator:
label: A. T. K. / THIS LITTLE BOOK OF EASTERN WISDOM / IS LOVINGLY INSCRIBED / PREFACE;
lines 65-114
start: '65'
end: '114'
translation: 'The Persian Mystics: Jalálu''d-dín Rúmí'
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: '"OUR JOURNEY IS TO THE ROSE-GARDEN OF UNION"'
summary: The passage contains the title-page and dedication of a book on Jalálu'd-dín
Rúmí, including an inscription to A. T. K. and an epigraph about a journey to
union. The preface thanks several named contributors and permission holders for
selections, translations, and quoted poems used in the volume, and describes the
work as an attempt to popularise Rúmí.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The book is titled as part of the Wisdom of the East series and concerns the
Persian mystic Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The book is dedicated to A. T. K. as a little book of Eastern wisdom.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: An epigraph attributed to Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí states that the journey is to
the rose-garden of union.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The preface thanks R. A. Nicholson, E. H. Whinfield, John Hastie, and others
for permissions, translations, quotations, help, sympathy, and interest.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The preface names the Masnavi, the Dīvāni Shamsi Tabrīz, and several poem
titles as sources or quoted materials.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The preface describes the author's aim as an attempt to popularise the wisest
of the Persian Súfís.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: F. Hadland Davis
description: Named on the title page as the author and, in the preface, the speaker
who thanks contributors and describes the aim of the book.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí
description: Named as the Persian mystic treated by the book and credited with the
epigraph about the journey to the rose-garden of union.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: A. T. K.
description: Named recipient of the dedication.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: R. A. Nicholson
description: Thanked for permission to use selections from the Dīvāni Shamsi Tabrīz;
also named as translator of other lyrical poetry of Rúmí used in the volume.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: E. H. Whinfield
description: Thanked for allowing use of quotations from his rendering of the Masnavi.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: John Hastie
description: Thanked for permission to quote passages from Professor Hastie's Festival
of Spring.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
roles:
- id: role:1
label: author and prefatory speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The title page names F. Hadland Davis as author; the preface is written in
the first person by the thanking speaker.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: role:2
label: named Persian mystic and attributed epigraph speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The title identifies Rúmí as the subject, and the epigraph is attributed
to him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: dedicatee
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The dedication is addressed to A. T. K.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:4
label: acknowledged contributor or permission holder
assigned_to:
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
basis: The preface thanks these named figures for permissions, translations, and
quoted passages.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: rose-garden of union
literal_form: rose-garden of union
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: little book of Eastern wisdom
literal_form: little book of Eastern wisdom
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Dedication and epigraph
summary: The front matter dedicates the book to A. T. K. and presents a Rúmí epigraph
about a journey to the rose-garden of union.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:2
label: Preface acknowledgements
summary: The prefatory speaker thanks named contributors and permission holders
for use of Rúmí selections, Masnavi quotations, and other quoted poems, and states
the aim of popularising Rúmí.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:2
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: journey toward union
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: The epigraph explicitly frames the spiritual aim as a journey to a place
of union, expressed as a rose-garden.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage is front matter and gives only a brief epigraph, not a developed
narrative of quest or union.
- id: motif:2
label: wisdom transmission through a book
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The front matter identifies the volume with Eastern wisdom, and the preface
presents the book as an effort to popularise Rúmí as the wisest of the Persian
Súfís.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: This is a paratextual framing rather than a mythic episode.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 65-83
quote_or_summary: 'Title-page material identifies the work as The Persian Mystics:
Jalálu''d-dín Rúmí, in the Wisdom of the East series, by F. Hadland Davis.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short summary only.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 85-91
quote_or_summary: 'Dedicated to A. T. K.: "THIS LITTLE BOOK OF EASTERN WISDOM /
IS LOVINGLY INSCRIBED".'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; brief quotation.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 93-94
quote_or_summary: '"OUR JOURNEY IS TO THE ROSE-GARDEN OF UNION" — Jalálu''d-dín
Rúmí.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; brief quotation.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 98-105
quote_or_summary: The preface thanks R. A. Nicholson, his publishers, E. H. Whinfield,
and John Hastie for permissions to use selections, renderings, and quoted passages.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary only.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 101-109
quote_or_summary: The preface names the Masnavi, the Dīvāni Shamsi Tabrīz, Festival
of Spring, several poem titles, and Nicholson's translations from Rúmí's lyrical
poetry.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summary only.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 110-114
quote_or_summary: The prefatory speaker thanks others for interest in the attempt
to "popularise the wisest of the Persian Súfís."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; brief quotation.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: The passage is mostly title-page, dedication, and acknowledgements. Motif
extraction is limited to explicit paratextual language about wisdom and the epigraph's
journey to union.
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: |-
No comparison claims were added because the passage itself does not support a specific cross-textual comparison.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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