Rumi

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language" >Persian</a>: جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى‎), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (جلال‌الدین محمد رومی), Mevlana or Mawlānā (مولانا, meaning Our Master), Mevlevi or Mawlawī (مولوی, meaning My Master), and more popularly in the English-speaking world simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_people" title="Persian people" >Persian</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi#cite_note-EI-1" >[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi#cite_note-8" >[8]</a> poet, jurist, theologian, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufism" title="Sufism" >Sufi</a> mystic.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi#cite_note-9" >[9]</a> Rumi's importance is considered to transcend national and ethnic borders. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_people" title="Persian people" >Iranians</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_people" title="Turkish people" >Turks</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghans" title="Afghans" class="mw-redirect" >Afghans</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajiks" title="Tajiks" class="mw-redirect" >Tajiks</a>, and other <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Asian_peoples" title="Central Asian peoples" class="mw-redirect" >Central Asian Muslims</a> as well as the Muslims of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia" >South Asia</a> have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy in the past seven centuries.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi#cite_note-Nasr1-10" >[10]</a> His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into various formats. He has been described as the "most popular poet in America"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi#cite_note-BBC-Haviland-11" >[11]</a> and the "best selling poet in the US".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi#cite_note-BBC_Culture-12" >[12]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi#cite_note-Time-13" >[13]</a>

Rumi's works are written in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language" >Persian</a> and his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathnawi" title="Mathnawi" class="mw-redirect" >Mathnawi</a> remains one of the purest literary glories of Persia,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi#cite_note-14" >[14]</a> and one of the crowning glories of the Persian language.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi#cite_note-C.E.Bosworth_p.391-15" >[15]</a> His original works are widely read today in their original language across the Persian-speaking world (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" title="Iran" >Iran</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajikistan" title="Tajikistan" >Tajikistan</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan" >Afghanistan</a> and parts of Persian speaking Central Asia and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus" >Caucasus</a>)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi#cite_note-16" >[16]</a> Translations of his works are very popular, most notably in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey" >Turkey</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan" >Azerbaijan</a>, the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" >United States</a> and South Asia.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi#cite_note-17" >[17]</a> His poetry has influenced <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_literature" title="Persian literature" >Persian literature</a> as well as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_literature" title="Turkish literature" >Turkish</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_poetry" title="Punjabi poetry" class="mw-redirect" >Punjabi</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu_literature" title="Urdu literature" >Urdu</a> and some other Iranian, Turkic and Indic languages that have been influenced by Persian, e.g. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashto_language" title="Pashto language" >Pashto</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Turkish_language" title="Ottoman Turkish language" >Ottoman Turkish</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagatai_language" title="Chagatai language" >Chagatai</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindhi_language" title="Sindhi language" >Sindhi</a>.

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