Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi

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A page of a copy circa 1503 of the "Dīwān-e Šams-e Tabrīzī"

Dīwān-e Kabīr, Dīwān-e Šams-e Tabrīzī (The Works of Shams of Tabriz) (Persian: دیوان شمس تبریزی) 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 New Persian languageand 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 New Persian, 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.

Dīwān-e Kabīr (Divan-ı Kebir) from 1366
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