Motif
contested installation and prophecy of order’s increase
contested_installation_and_prophecy_of_order_s_increase
A motif of the Prophecy and Systematic Divination family, within the sub-family Civic, Marriage, and Communal Signs. 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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The Mesnevi CHAPTER III. / CHAPTER IV. / CHAPTER V. / CHAPTER VI.; lines 4500-4638 confidence: high
A prince nominates Husām as rector; Jelāl intends to carry and spread Husām’s carpet, but Akhī Ahmed snatches it away, armed nobles draw weapons, and Jelāl rebukes them while predicting their decline and Mevlevī increase.
Husām’s rector installation is opposed through seizure of his carpet; Jelāl rebukes the crowd and predicts the decline of the opponents and growth of the Mevlevī order and his posterity.
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