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Mar 17, 2014 · Rumi, 1207– 1273 CE, was a 13th-century Persian Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Rumi’s influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions in the Muslim world and beyond. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world’s language. Rumi has become a widely read and popular poet, even ...
Oct 21, 2014 · Jane Ciabattari explains his enduring influence. The ecstatic poems of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi master born 807 years ago in 1207, have sold millions of copies in recent ...
Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 1273), also called by the honorific Mawlana (Our Master), is a jurist, poet and one of the leading luminaries of Sufism. His masterpiece, the Masnavi-ye Manavi (Spiritual Couplets), is a didactic epic that is famous for his lyrics, which dives deep into the heart of the Islamic tradition with an outlook of love, tenderness ...
Rumi. (Persian Poet) Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi, known to the Western world simply as Rumi, was a thirteenth century Sufi mystic and a great Persian poet, whose works have transcended all barriers. Born in today’s Afghanistan, he spent most of his adult years in present-day Turkey, at that time known as Rumi and hence the nisba Rumi.
Rumi. Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), which means Our Master, is one of the Islamic world's greatest poets. He is usually known in the English-speaking world as Rumi. He is a Sufi mystic, philosopher and lover of humanity. His followers began a school of mysticism to encourage and celebrate his teachings ...
Rumi is a creative giant with a very colorful life story that involves a wild anti-social mystic mentor and an honor killing. Rumi was also extremely prolific; he left behind about 70,000 verses of poetry almost all in Persian that are collected in two epic books. The first collection is devoted to his mentor Shams.
Rumi – Sufi Poet of East and West. The 13th century Afghan-born Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–1273) is one of the best-selling poets today in the West. His lofty, feel-good verses on the power and virtues of 'love' are embraced by many for their poignancy and inspiration. But as Idries Shah tells us in his comprehensive chapter about Rumi in The ...
