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Rumi's Poetry

In Our Time

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The Masnev, the Masnevi and the Divaneshams

The masnev is composed in six volumes. It's certainly a volume of there are certainl scholars see certain themes in thee six volumes. But i think it's necessary to make a distinction between En rumi's two major masterpieces, the masnevi and the divaneshams. Whereas e divane shams, is very different. It's rooms own personal experiences. And then he digresses and comes back to that short story again. So it's something that really hooks the reader. The listener is the word, because they are musical as well.

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