The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1137 page)

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m
gave
music
and
dance
an important place in religious expression.
The best known of R
m
's works are
Diwani-shams-Tabrizi
(The Poems of Shams-i-Tabriz) and
Mathnaw
(The Poem in Rhyming Couplets, tr. R. A. Nicholson, 1925–40), a great mystical poem considered by
J
m
to be the essence of the Qur’
n rendered in Persian. He also wrote a prose treatise entitled
F
hi m
f
hi
(What is within is within). His influence over the S
f
orders of Turkey, Persia, Central Asia, and India reinvigorated Islam from within and helped it recover from the Mongol invasions (1258).

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