Motif
city taken or lost through stratagem and gate surrender
city_taken_or_lost_through_stratagem_and_gate_surrender
A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Host Battle and Siege. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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sufi
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Poems from the Divan of Hafiz GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL / LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION; lines 128-213 confidence: high
Abu Ishac loses Shiraz, then returns the next year, captures it by a stratagem, and re-establishes himself over Fars; the passage uses the metaphor of a bark not steered into quiet waters.
The passage reports that Abu Ishac captured Shiraz by stratagem and later lost effective control when a threatened quarter's chief delivered gate keys to Shah Shudja.
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