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Shams-i Tabrīzī (Persian: شمس تبریزی) or Shams al-Din Mohammad (1185–1248) was a Persian [1] Shafi'ite [1] poet, [2] who is credited as the spiritual instructor of Mewlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi and is referenced with great reverence in Rumi's poetic collection, in particular Diwan-i Shams-i Tabrīzī.
During Shams’ initial separation from Rumi, Rumi wrote poetic letters to Shams pleading for his return. [20] Following Shams’ second disappearance, Rumi returned to writing poetry lauding Shams and lamenting his disappearance. [4] These poems would be collected after Rumi’s death by his students as the Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi. [21]
The opera features the relationship between the 13th-century poet Rumi, and the Sufi dervish Shams Tabrizi without literally embodying the characters. The main narrative action ends with the death of Shams Tabrizi and Rumi's coming-to-terms with it in his work and life. This is thought to have taken place historically in 1248.
Shams Tabrizi's tomb in Khoy, beside a tower monument in a memorial park, has been nominated as a World Cultural Heritage Center by UNESCO. [1] The tomb of Shams-i Tabrīzī was recently nominated to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Tomb of Shams Tabrizi Tomb of Shams Tabrizi Tomb of Shams Tabrizi
It is rumoured that Shams was murdered with the connivance of Rumi's son, 'Ala' ud-Din; if so, Shams indeed gave his head for the privilege of mystical friendship. [ 56 ] Rumi's love for, and his bereavement at the death of, Shams found their expression in an outpouring of lyric poems, Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi .
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His method, exemplary of a "golden age" of Sufi metaphysics, was related to the Illuminationism of Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi as well as to Rumi's Shams Tabrizi. [1] Kubra was born in 540/1145 and died in 618/1221. [2]
The date of death of Jalaluddin Tabrizi is contested. Ghulam Sarwar asserts that he died in 1244, [8] whilst Mirza Muhammad Akhtar Dehlavi records his death to be in 1225. [11] Tabrizi was buried in his khanqah at Hazrat Pandua.