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Rumi, Jalaluddin (1207–1273)
Jalaluddin Rumi is the name by which the Persian poet Jalal al-Din Mohammad-e Balkhi is conventionally known in the West.
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In the Muslim world he is generally called Maulavi or Maulana (Mevlana in Turkish), meaning, respectively, "my master" or "our master," a title reflecting the veneration in which he was held by his followers, who formed the Mevlevi (Maulaviyya) order of dervishes around his writings and example.
Life
The hagiographical sources portray Rumi's father, Baha˒ al-Din-e Valad, as one of the most important Hanafi scholars and theologians of his day, placing his family origins in Balkh (near Mazar-e Sharif in modern Afghanistan), one of the four great urban centers of the eastern Iranian cultural sphere in the pre-Mongol period.
When Rumi was born in 1207, however, Baha˒ al-Din was living in Vakhsh, a small town located in what is now Tajikistan, acting as an itinerant preacher (va˓ez) and religious scholar. It does not appear that Ba