Round 11: Tossup 10

These people contrast with peasants and men of religion in the 17th-century satire Brains Confounded. A leader of these people tries to seduce a married lady in the 1922 novel Nur Baba. Translator Mir Amman modernized a tale of four of these people by Amīr Khusrau. Three of these people tell how they went partly blind in stories within the story “The Porter and the Three Ladies.” Ahmed avenges his brother’s execution in a Bosnian novel titled for “Death and” (10[1])one (10[1])of (10[1])these (10[1])people by Meša (-5[1])Selimović. Apocryphally, (-5[1])the name of these people means “doorway,” as seen in a parable (-5[1])by a poet with a mausoleum in Konya, (-5[1])whose training as one (10[1])inspired (-5[1])Elif Shafak’s (10[1])novel (10[1])The 40 Rules of Love. (-5[1])A poet whose surname refers to these people wrote (-5[1])Memory for Forgetfulness and (10[1])“Identity (10[1])Card.” (10[4])For 10 points, (10[1])a dancing order of what ascetics (10[3])was (10[1])founded by followers of Rūmī? ■END■ (10[6])

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