Question

A person of this type says, “If you don’t believe you won’t be safe” in a poem that describes them“returning less discouraged and melancholy, because love and peace…are coming to town.” A person of this type says “Verily you are suspended like scales” between the two title concepts in “On Joy and Sorrow.” A person of this type says “you are a breath (15[1])in God’s sphere, and a leaf in God’s forest” in a poem that begins“Your (*) soul is a battlefield.” Almitra follows the title character’s ship departing from Orphalese at the end of (10[1])a book narrated (10[1])by a person of this type named (10[1])Almustafa. Salman Rushdie wrote a novel inspired (10[1])by the life of one of these people that includes Saladin Chamcha and Gibreel Farishta, The Satanic Verses. For 10 points, name these people, one of whom titles a collection by Khalil Gibran, such as Isaiah (10[1])and Muhammad. ■END■

ANSWER: prophets [accept The Prophet]
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Pajwal BhandariPenn State BMichigan B6315
Shourjo GanguliOhio StateWUSTL9410
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Teigue KellyPenn State AIowa State10410
Jonathan ShaufNorth CarolinaIowa11110
Young Fenimore LeeOhioMichigan C14710

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