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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi was born on September 30, 1207 to a family of learned Persian theologians in a city of Greater Khorasan province in Persia, presently known as Balkh, Afghanistan, and died in Konya within the Seljuk Empire's territory (currently within Turkey) on December 17, 1273.
Rumi, also known as Balkhi, Mawlawi or Mawlana (meaning our guide or our lord), moved to Konya after a pilgrimage to Mecca with his father, Baha'al din Veled, and at such time the Mongols were invading Central Asia. Rumi was later sent to Damascus and Aleppo to obtain religious education. Rumi's father became head of a Madrassah, religious school, but died soon after leaving Rumi to succeed him at only twenty-five.
Rumi spent his later years at Anatolia where he finished his greatest masterpiece, Masnavi-ye Manavi (Spiritual Couplets), a six-volume poem regarded by many Sufis (a sect of Islam) as second in importance only to the holy Qur'an.
He died on December 17, 1273 in present day Turkey and was laid to rest next to his father. The day of his death is now known as Sebul Arus (Night of Union) to the Mawlawi dervishes and is kept as a day of festival. Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi played a huge role in converting Orthodox Anatolia (Asia-minor) to Islam.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi was born on September 30, 1207 to a family of learned Persian theologians in a city of Greater Khorasan province in Persia, presently known as Balkh, Afghanistan, and died in Konya within the Seljuk Empire's territory (currently within Turkey) on December 17, 1273.
Rumi, also known as Balkhi, Mawlawi or Mawlana (meaning our guide or our lord), moved to Konya after a pilgrimage to Mecca with his father, Baha'al din Veled, and at such time the Mongols were invading Central Asia. Rumi was later sent to Damascus and Aleppo to obtain religious education. Rumi's father became head of a Madrassah, religious school, but died soon after leaving Rumi to succeed him at only twenty-five.
