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New Blog Post: Beyond the Whirling Dervish: Rumi’s Divan‑e Shams‑e Tabrizi and the Poetry of Ecstasy

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Beyond the Whirling Dervish: Rumi’s Divan‑e Shams‑e Tabrizi and the Poetry of Ecstasy

Introduction Most readers first encounter Jalāl ad‑Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (1207–1273 CE) through the rhythmic grace of the Mevlevī “whirling” ceremony or the epic narrative of his Masnavi. Yet it is in his lesser‑known, intensely personal collection—the Divan‑e Shams‑e Tabrizi (“The Collected Poems of Shams of Tabriz”)—that we glimpse the raw,…