Shams al-Din al-Tabrizi was a Sufi mystic and poet. He wrote most of his poetry in Persian and some in Turkish and Arabic. He was a Sufi Muslim and Shafi’i in doctrine. He is attributed to the city of Tabriz.
The spiritual teacher of Jalaluddin Rumi wrote the Divan-e-Tabrizi, which he wrote on the subject of divine love.
A very unique character, so much so that some historians have called him a fictional character.
Shams Tabriz spent forty days in seclusion with a female disciple in Konya to write The Forty Rules of Love, which Turkish writer Elif Shafak summarized in her novel of the same name. This work is considered one of Tabriz's lost and rare texts, in which he completed his vision of divine love and spiritual communication.