During Sham’s initial separation from Rumi, Rumi wrote poetic letters to Shams pleading for his return. Shams abruptly left Konya in 1246 C.E, returned a year later, then vanished again in 1248 C.E, possibly having been murdered. Rumi, who previously had no background in poetics, quickly became attached to Shams, who acted as a spiritual teacher to Rumi and introduced him to music, sung poetry, and dance through Sufi samas. In 1244 C.E, Rumi, then a jurist and spiritual counselor working at the behest of the Seljuk Sultan of Rûm, met a wandering Sufi dervish named Shams-i Tabrizi in Konya. Pages from a 1366 manuscript of the Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi in the Mevlâna mausoleum, Konya, Turkey Rumi evidently found the traditional metrical constraints of ghazals to be constraining, lamenting in one ghazal that fitting his poems into the traditional “dum-ta-ta-dum” ghazal metre was a process so dreadful that it killed him. Notably, due to the extemporaneous manner in which Rumi composed his poems, much of Rumi’s poetry has an ecstatic, almost trance-like style that differs from the works of other professional Islamic poets. Though belonging to the long tradition of Sufi poetry, Rumi developed his own unique style. Rumi signed off most of his own ghazals as either Khâmush (Silence) or Shams-i Tabrizi. By convention, poets writing ghazals often adopted poetic personas which they then invoked as noms de plume at the end of their poems, in what are called takhallos. Most of the poems in the Divan follow the form of a ghazal, a type of lyric poem often used to express themes of love and friendship as well as more mystical Sufi theological subjects. Although most of the poems are written in Persian, there are also some in Arabic, as well as some bilingual poems written in Turkish, Arabic, and Greek. It contains 44,292 lines (according to Foruzanfar's ion, which is based on the oldest manuscripts available) 3,229 ghazals in fifty-five different metres (34,662) 44 tarji-bands (1,698 lines) and 1,983 quatrains (7,932 lines). The Divan contains poems in several different Eastern-Islamic poetic styles (e.g.

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