# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shams-tabrizi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:58:09.629Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/shams-tabrizi"
name: "Shams Tabrizi"
slug: "shams-tabrizi"
description: "A wandering Persian dervish who walked into Rumi's life and upended it — then disappeared. The grief Rumi poured into verse after Shams vanished became some of the most ardent poetry in Islamic mysticism."
tagline: "Spiritual instructor of Mewlānā Rumi"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Miniature_of_Shams_Tabrizi_by_Hossein_Behzad%2C_dated_1957.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1185"
deathDate: "1248"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.67
  momentum:             1.818615751789976
  historical:           23.780496
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - name: "Philosophy"
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  - name: "Literature"
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  - name: "Medieval Era"
    slug: "medieval-era"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Shams Tabrīzī was born in 1185, a Persian dervish whose name means nothing until it collides with another's. He met Rumi in Konya and taught him in seclusion for forty days — a span that rewired the older poet entirely. Then Shams fled to Damascus. Rumi's "Divan-i Shams-i Tabrīzī" is saturated with reverence and loss, the absence of the teacher becoming the subject itself. Shams died in 1248. His tomb was recently nominated for UNESCO World Heritage status, a belated institutional nod to a man who left no writings of his own, only the shape of what he took away.