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At a glance

Roles: poet-scholar
Region: Persia & Central Asia · Anatolia
Identifiers: Wikidata
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: أحمد البدوي · Al-Baydawi, Abd Allah ibn Umar · al-Tala'fari Abu al-Makarim Muhammad ibn Yusuf · Ibn Abi al-Ahwas, al-Husayn ibn Abd al-Aziz · ابن خلكان

Spirituality and Sufism Literature

Overview

A poet, scholar and Persian from Balkh who lived in Konya. He wrote the Masnavi, one of the most famous works of Sufi poetry, and his followers founded the Mawlawi order. ¹

People and things also explored

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Sources

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islam.museum contributors. “Jalal al-Din Rumi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/jalal-al-din-rumi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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