Who was the radical, wandering dervish who transformed the world's most beloved poet?

Shams-i-Tabrizi arrived in the scholarly world of Konya in 1244 and ignited a spiritual fire in the renowned theologian Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, shattering his conventional life forever. A master of the Qalandar tradition and the quintessential outsider, Shams became Rumi's spiritual mirror, forcing him to abandon his pulpit for the ecstatic practice of Sama