Called 'Jelaluddin Balkhi' by the Persians and Afghans, Rumi was
born on September 30, 1207, in Balkh, Afghanistan, then a part of
the Persian Empire. He was the greatest mystical poet of Persia,
famous for his didactic epic Masnavi-ye Ma'navi (Spiritual
Couplets), a treasure-house of Sufi mysticism. Rumi died on
December 17, 1273.
Alan Williams is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Religion at the
University of Manchester.
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