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He introduced Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi, usually known as Rumi in the West, to Islamic mysticism, for which he was immortalized in Rumi’s poetry collection Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i (“The Works of Shams of Tabriz”). Introduction: Shams-e-Tabrizi (d.1248) was an Iranian Sufi mystic born in the city of Tabriz in Iranian Azerbaijan.