Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi

Rūmī
Artistic depiction of Rumi, 1980
Title	Mevlânâ, Mawlānā,Mevlevî, Mawlawī
Born	30 September 1207 Wakhsh, or BalkhKhwarezmian Empire ( Iran )
Died	17 December 1273 (age 66) Konya, Sultanate of Rum
Resting place	Tomb of Mevlana Rumi, Mevlana Museum, Konya, Turkey
Ethnicity	Persian
Era	Islamic Golden Age
Region	Khwarezmian Empire (Balkh: 1207–1212, 1213–1217; Samarkand: 1212–1213) Sultanate of Rum (Malatya: 1217–1219; Akşehir: 1219–1222; Larende: 1222–1228; Konya: 1228–1273)
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni (Sufism)
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Main interest(s)	Sufi poetry, Hanafi jurisprudence
Notable idea(s)	Sufi whirling, Muraqaba
Notable work(s)	Mathnawī-ye ma'nawī, Dīwān-e Shams-e Tabrīzī, Fīhi mā fīhi
Sufi order	Mevlevi
Influenced by Muhammad, Al-Ghazali, Muhaqqeq Termezi, Baha-ud-din Zakariya, Attār, Sanā'ī, Abu Sa'īd Abulḫayr, Ḫaraqānī, Bayazīd Bistāmī, Sultan Walad, Šamse Tabrīzī
Influenced Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob, Abdolkarim Soroush, Hossein Elahi Ghomshei, Sir Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (Persian: جلال‌الدین محمد رومی‎‎), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى), Mevlânâ/Mawlānā (مولانا, "our master"), Mevlevî/Mawlawī (مولوی, "my master"), and more popularly simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century PersianSunniMuslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turks, 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 Turkish, Arabic, and Greek, in his verse. His Mathnawī, composed in Konya, is considered one of the greatest poems 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, Ottoman Turkish, Azerbaijani, as well as the literature of some other Turkic, Iranian, and Indo-Aryan languages including Chagatai, Urdu, Pashto, and Bengali.