Rumi

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (Persie: جلال‌الدین محمد رومی‎), kent as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى) an aw, Mevlânâ/Mawlānā (مولانا, "our master"), Mevlevî/Mawlawī (مولوی, "my master"), an mair popularly simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), wis a 13t-century Persie[1][7] Sunni[8] Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, an Sufi mystic.[9] Rumi's influence transcends naitional borders an ethnic diveesions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turks, Greeks, Pashtuns, ither Central Asie Muslims, an the Muslims o Sooth Asie hae greatly appreciatit his spiritual legacy for the past seiven centuries.[10] His poems hae been widely translatit intae mony o the warld's leids an transposit intae various formats. Rumi haes been describit as the "maist popular poet"[11] an the "best sellin poet" in the Unitit States.[12][13]

Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī
مولانا جلال‌الدین محمد بلخی

Rūmī
TeetleMevlânâ, Mawlānā,[1] Mevlevî, Mawlawī
Born30 September 1207
Wakhsh,[2][3] or Balkh[4] Khwarezmian Empire
Died17 Dizember 1273 (age 66)
Konya, Sultanate o Rum
Restin placeTomb o Mevlana Rumi, Mevlana Museum, Konya, Turkey
EthnicityPersie
EraIslamic Gowden Age
RegionKhwarezmian Empire (Balkh: 1207–1212, 1213–1217; Samarkand: 1212–1213)[5][6]
Sultanate o Rum (Malatya: 1217–1219; Akşehir: 1219–1222; Larende: 1222–1228; Konya: 1228–1273)[5]
ReleegionIslam
DenominationSunni (Sufism)
JurisprudenceHanafi
Main interest(s)Sufi poetry, Hanafi jurisprudence
Notable idea(s)Sufi whirling, Muraqaba
Notable wirk(s)Mathnawī-ye ma'nawī, Dīwān-e Shams-e Tabrīzī, Fīhi mā fīhi
Sufi orderMevlevi
Rumi

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