Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi or Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi {{ref|Translit}} ?????? ???? ????? ???? ???? (September 30, 1207–December 17, 1273 CE) (also known as Mawlawi or Mawlana, meaning our guide or our lord in Arabic and Persian, or Mevlana meaning our guide in Turkish) was a Persian Muslim jurist, theologian, poet and Sufi mystic, who was born in Balkh (then a city of the Greater Khorasan province of Persia (Iran), now part of Afghanistan) and died in Konya (in present-day Turkey, then within the Seljuk Empire's territory). His birth place and native tongue points towards a Persian heritage. He also wrote his poetry in Persian, and is read widely in Iran and Afghanistan where the language is spoken. Yet, he is adored to such a degree that citizens of the modern Turkey, Pakistan, and India sometimes consider him one of their own.

External links

• Jalaluddin Rumi
• The Threshold Society and Mevlevi Order
• The Mevlevi Order of America

NOTE: The above two organizations are unaffiliated with each other.

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• Official website of the Family of Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
• Dar-al-Masnavi
• RumiOnFire.com - A Tribute to Rumi
• Rumi, Jalal al-Din, a biography by Professor Iraj Bashiri, University of Minnesota.
• Findagrave.com Entry on Rumi
• Quotes
• Mevlana Jalal al-Din Rumi A commentary on Rumi by Fethullah Gülen