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Jalaluddin Rumi!
Jalaluddin Rumi Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī Persian: جلال‌الدین
محمد رومی‎, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī جلال‌الدین
محمد بلخى, Mawlānā مولانا,
"our master", Mevlânâ, Mevlevî مولوی Mawlawī, "my master", and more popularly
simply as Rūmī 1207 – 17 December 1273, was a 13th-
century Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic.
Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions:
Iranians, Tajiks, Turkish, Greeks, Pashtuns, other Central Asian Muslims, and the Muslims
of South Asia have greatly appreciated his
spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries.
His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed
into
various formats.
Rumi has been described as the "most popular poet" and the "best selling poet" in the United
States.
Rumi's works are written mostly in Persian, but occasionally he also used Greek, Arabic,
and Turkish in his verse.
His Mathnawī, composed
in Konya, remains one of the purest literary glories of the Persian
language.
His works are widely read today in their original language
across Greater Iran and the Persian-speaking world.
Translations of his works are very popular, most notably in
Turkey, Azerbaijan, the
United States, and South Asia.
His poetry has influenced Persian literature, but also Turkish, Punjabi, Hindi, and Urdu,
as well as the
literature of some other Turkic, Iranian, and Indo-Aryan languages including Chagatai,
Pashto, and Bengali.