Poetic works

04.12.2010 16:50

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 Wor
  

  

  Maṭnawīye Ma'nawī
  Mevlana Museum, Konya, Turkey
  k) 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].