Major works

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Rumi's poetry is often divided into various categories: the quatrains (rubayāt) and odes (ghazal) of the Divan, the six books of the Masnavi. The prose works are divided into The Discourses, The Letters, and the Seven Sermons.

Poetic works

• Rumi's major work is the Maṭnawīye Ma'nawī (Spiritual Couplets; مثنوی معنوی), a six-volume poem regarded by some Sufis^[33] as the Persian-language Qur'an. It is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of mystical poetry^[34]. It contains approximately 27000 lines of Persian poetry^[35].

• Rumi's other major work is the Dīwān-e Kabīr (Great Work) or Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi|Dīwān-e Shams-e Tabrīzī (The Works of Shams of Tabriz; دیوان شمس تبریزی named in honor of Rumi's master Shams. Besides approximately 35000 Persian couplets and 2000 Persian quatrains^[36], the Divan contains 90 Ghazals and 19 quatrains in Arabic^[37], a couple of dozen or so couplets in Turkish (mainly macaronic poems of mixed Persian and Turkish)^[38][39] and 14 couplets in Greek(all of them in three macaronic poems of Greek-Persian)^[40][41].