Notably, due to the extemporaneous manner in which Rumi composed his poems, much of Rumi’s poetry has an ecstatic, almost trance-like style that differs from the works of other professional Islamic poets. Though belonging to the long tradition of Sufi poetry, Rumi developed his own unique style. Rumi signed off most of his own ghazals as either Khâmush (Silence) or Shams-i Tabrizi. By convention, poets writing ghazals often adopted poetic personas which they then invoked as noms de plume at the end of their poems, in what are called takhallos. Most of the poems in the Divan follow the form of a ghazal, a type of lyric poem often used to express themes of love and friendship as well as more mystical Sufi theological subjects. Although most of the poems are written in Persian, there are also some in Arabic, as well as some bilingual poems written in Turkish, Arabic, and Greek. It contains 44,292 lines (according to Foruzanfar's edition, which is based on the oldest manuscripts available) 3,229 ghazals in fifty-five different metres (34,662) 44 tarji-bands (1,698 lines) and 1,983 quatrains (7,932 lines). The Divan contains poems in several different Eastern-Islamic poetic styles (e.g.
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