Motif
False textual alteration exposed before public assembly
false_textual_alteration_exposed_before_public_assembly
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Falsehood and False Teaching. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
sufi
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The Persian Mystics: Jámí CONTENTS / INTRODUCTION / EDITORIAL NOTE / INTRODUCTION; lines 259-357 confidence: medium
During Jámí’s pilgrimage to Mecca, a passage from Silsilah al-Dhahab is mutilated, shown in Baghdad as Jámí’s work, and later exposed at a madrassah meeting as a deception involving suppressed beginning and end plus an offensive addition.
A mutilated passage attributed to Jámí causes conflict until an assembly discovers suppression and insertion in the text.
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