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Prose of Rumi
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About Shams
About Shams
Shams al-Din of Tabriz: A Brief Introduction
The turning point in Rumi’s life came about the year 1244, when he met in Konya a mysterious wandering Sufi called Shamsoddin of Tabriz. Shams, as he is most often…
Rumi’s First Encounter with Shams
Rumi’s life seemed to have been a fairly normal one for a religious scholar: teaching, meditating, helping the poor, until in the late fall of 1244 when he met a…
The Relationship between Shams and Rumi
That Shams brought about a spiritual metamorphosis in Rumi we cannot begin to doubt, but the nature of their relationship transcended the traditional roles of master and disciple. If Rumi…
Rumi in Search of Shams
Some of the poems in the Divan-e Shams seem to have been composed shortly after the departure of Shams, and they confirm that Rumi thought he had gone to Syria…
