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Dīvān-e Kabīr or Dīvān-e Šams-e Tabrīzī (The Works of Šams Tabrīzī) or Dīvān-e Šams is one of Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī's (Rumi) masterpieces. A collection of lyric poems that contains more than 40,000 verses, it is written in the New Persian language and is considered one of the greatest works of Persian literature.

Dīvān-e Kabīr ("the great divan") contains poems in several different styles of Eastern-Islamic poetry (e.g. odes, eulogies, quatrains, etc.). It contains 44,282 lines (according to Foruzanfar's edition, which is based on the oldest manuscripts available): 3,229 odes, or ghazals (total lines = 34,662); 44 tarji-bands (total lines = 1698); and 1,983 quatrains (total lines = 7932). 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. Dīvān-e Šams-e Tabrīzī is named in honour of Rumi's spiritual teacher and friend Shams Tabrizi.

Greco-Persian and Greek poems
The following poem of Rumi is written in Persian while the last words of each verse end with a Greek word:


 * 1) νηστικός / نیم شب از عشق تا دانی چه می‌گوید خروس: خیز شب را زنده دار و روز روشن نستکوس
 * 2) ἄνεμος/ پرها بر هم زند یعنی دریغا خواجه‌ام : روزگار نازنین را می‌دهد بر آنموس
 * 3) ἄνθρωπος/ در خروش است آن خروس و تو همی در خواب خوش : نام او را طیر خوانی نام خود را آنثروپوس
 * 4) ἄγγελος/ آن خروسی که تو را دعوت کند سوی خدا: او به صورت مرغ باشد در حقیقات انگلوس
 * 5) βασιλιάς/ من غلام آن خروس ام که او چنین پندی دهد : خاک پای او بِ آید از سر واسیلیوس
 * 6) καλόγερος/ گَردِ کفشِ خاکِ پای مصطفی را سرمه ساز : تا نباشی روز حشر از جمله‌ی کالویروس
 * 7) Σαρακηνός/ رو شریعت را گزین و امر حق را پاس دار : گر عرب باشی و اگر ترک و اگر سراکنوس

The following are Greek verses in the poetry of Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273), and his son, Sultan Walad (1226-1312). The works have been difficult to edit, because of the absence of vowel pointing in most of the verses, and the confusion of scribes unfamiliar with Greek; different editions of the verses vary greatly: