Dīwān-e Kabīr, Dīwān-e Šams-e Tabrīzī or Dīwān-e Šams is one of Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi's masterpieces. A collection of lyric poems that contains more than 40,000 verses, it is written in the Dari dialect and is considered one of the greatest works of Persian literature.

Dīwān-e Kabīr ("the great divan") contains Rumi's poems in several different styles of Eastern-Islamic poetry (e.g. odes, eulogies, quatrains, etc). Although most of the poems are in Dari, there are also some in Arabic, and a small number of mixed Persian/Greek and Persian/Turkish poems. Dīwān-e Šams-e Tabrīzī is named in honour of Rumi's spiritual teacher and friend Šams of Tabrīz.

See also

• Diwan
• Rumi

External links

• Translations from Divan-e Shams
• Rumi Online Classes in Persian