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Less than a year later, Shams is found dead at the bottom of a well. Rumi in grief has his eldest son track down Shams, whom he finds in Damascus and brings back. However, Rumi’s disciples, whether seeing the wandering migrant below their hoca’s stature or jealous at having at his attention stolen from them, eventually run Shams out of town.
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Rumi takes him into his house, where they have a series of sohbets, intense moments of silence and discussions, helping lead each other on the path to divine love. One day upon meeting in the middle of a Konyan bazaar, the both realize that in the other they had found what they had been looking for. Shams, on the other hand, was known as a wanderer and ascetic who never stayed in one place for long. He rises to become the city’s most prominent preacher and teacher. The basic outlines of the story is as such: Rumi, from a well-to-do family that fled from Balkh before it was overran by the Mongols, follows his father’s footsteps and eventually become a scholar and preacher in the Anatolian city of Konya. While Rumi had started to write poetry even before meeting Shams, it is only upon reaching the heights of divine love with/through him and the grief at his absence that Rumi penned thousands of couplets and the most insightful and searing of his poetry. However, that of Shams-I Tabrizi, the ma ş uk (beloved) to Rumi’s aşik (lover), the man who inspired Rumi, is unfortunately and undeservedly less well-known. It is safe then to say that the name Rumi is familiar to even the uninitiated to Sufism. UNESCO named the year 2007, his 800th anniversary, as the International Year of Rumi. He was the bestselling poet in America in 2014.
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Rumi, known in Turkey as Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi, has achieved renown through the ages and the world over. The body belonged to one Shams-I Tabrizi, the beloved of the famous Sufi poet Rumi. They found his body, riddled with stab wounds, at the bottom of the well. Who Killed Shams-I Tabrizi?: Sufism and Turkish Identity in “The Black Book” and “The Dervish’s Gate” Thomas Parker