Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī
Rumi's 13th-c. lyric collection — c. 40,000 verses of mystical love-poetry in the voice of Shams of Tabriz
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī (Mature) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Non-Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Bi-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Total |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Singular |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī
The 1244-73 mature-Rumi period — the years after the Shams encounter.
Space
Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī
Konya in 13th-c. Anatolia; the wider Persianate-Sufi world.
Matter
Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī
The embodied lover-poet whose mystical-erotic experience the lyrics articulate.
Observer
Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī
Rumi as participant-observer-lover.
Energy
Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī
The cosmic-erotic-divine energies the lyrics articulate.
Information
Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī
The c. 40,000 verses of lyric poetry.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Modern reception (Barks, "Rumi as best-selling poet") has been variously assessed — defenders see legitimate cultural extension, scholars often critique freer translations as deracinating the work from its Islamic-Sufi context.