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Shams Tabrizi

1185 - 1248

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Shams-i Tabrīzī (Persian: شمس تبریزی) or Shams al-Din Mohammad (1185–1248) was a Persian Shafi'ite poet, 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. Tradition holds that Shams taught Rumi in seclusion in Konya for a period of forty days, before fleeing for Damascus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shams Tabrizi has received more than 1,428,724 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Shams Tabrizi is the 231st most popular writer (up from 270th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Iran (up from 39th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Iranian Writer.

Shams Tabrizi is most famous for being a Sufi mystic who is believed to have been the spiritual master of Rumi.

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  • 1.4M

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  • 71.84

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Me and Rumi
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Rumi has become one of the best-selling poets in North America. Practically every biography highlights his encounter with Shams-i Tabrizi, the wandering mystic who became his beloved companion. Rumi had been a sober scholar, teaching law and theology to a small circle of students, but Shams turned him into a devotee of music, dance, and poetry. Then, after three years, he vanished, never to be seen again. It was Rumi's longing for the lost Shams that made him one of the world's greatest poets, celebrating him as the embodiment of the divine beloved. This book makes available for the first time in any European language first-hand accounts of Shams that have never been studied by Western scholars. When Rumi and Shams talked, members of the circle took notes, which were preserved and sometimes copied by later generations, ending up in various libraries scattered around Turkey; this book arranges them in a manner that clarifies their meaning and context, with notes and a glossary.--From publisher description.
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Page views of Shams Tabrizis by language

Over the past year Shams Tabrizi has had the most page views in the with 198,633 views, followed by English (171,419), and Turkish (150,533). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Russian (2,109.33%), Tajik (73.74%), and Turkish (63.80%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Shams Tabrizi ranks 231 out of 7,302. Before him are Henryk Sienkiewicz, Prosper Mérimée, Dario Fo, Herman Melville, Snorri Sturluson, and Mikhail Bulgakov. After him are Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Jaroslav Hašek, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Frédéric Mistral.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1185, Shams Tabrizi ranks 3. Before him are Ögedei Khan, and Pope Urban IV. After him are Töregene Khatun, Afonso II of Portugal, William III of Sicily, Hyacinth of Poland, Thomas of Celano, Gertrude of Merania, Michael of Chernigov, Angelus of Jerusalem, and Raymond Roger Trencavel. Among people deceased in 1248, Shams Tabrizi ranks 1. After him are Subutai, Güyük Khan, Ibn al-Baitar, Sancho II of Portugal, Al-Adil II, Henry II, Duke of Brabant, Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen, Otto III, Count of Burgundy, Abu al-Hasan as-Said al-Mutadid, Andronikos Palaiologos, and Hugh I, Count of Blois.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Shams Tabrizi ranks 36 out of 631. Before him are Reza Shah (1878), Salman the Persian (568), Ferdowsi (940), Hassan Rouhani (1948), Darius II (-475), and Nizam al-Mulk (1018). After him are Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201), Antiochus III the Great (-241), Saadi Shirazi (1210), Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956), Qasem Soleimani (1957), and Jami (1414).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Shams Tabrizi ranks 6. Before him are Ismail I (1487), Abu Nuwas (762), Hafez (1325), Mansur Al-Hallaj (858), and Ferdowsi (940). After him are Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201), Saadi Shirazi (1210), Jami (1414), Doris Lessing (1919), Attar of Nishapur (1145), and Ibn al-Muqaffa' (724).

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