also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī جلال‌الدین محمد رومی, but known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi,(30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic jurist, theologian, and mystic.Rūmī is a descriptive name meaning "the Roman" since he lived most of his life in an area called Rūm because it was once ruled by the Byzantine Empire.
According to tradition, Rumi was born in Balkh, Khorasan (now in Afghanistan), the hometown of his father's famil