As such, there are a number of historical personages born in or associated with Anatolia known as Rumi, a word borrowed from Arabic literally meaning "Roman," in which context Roman refers to subjects of the Byzantine Empire or simply to people living in or things associated with Anatolia.
According to the authoritative Rumi biographer Franklin Lewis of the University of Chicago, "he Anatolian peninsula which had belonged to the Byzantine, or eastern Roman empire, had only relatively recently been conquered by Muslims and even when it came to be controlled by Turkish Muslim rulers, it was still known to Arabs, Persians and Turks as the geographical area of Rum. Balkhī and Rūmī are his nisbas, meaning "from Balkh" and "from Rûm" (Persian and Turkish name for Roman Anatolia), respectively. Jalal ad-Din mean 'Glory of the Faith' in the Arabic language. Name He is most commonly called Rumi in English. His poetry has influenced Persian literature, but also Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Azerbaijani, as well as the literature of some other Turkic, Iranian, and Indo-Aryan languages including Chagatai, Urdu, Pashto, and Bengali. Translations of his works are very popular, most notably in Turkey, Azerbaijan, the United States, and South Asia. His works are widely read today in their original language across Greater Iran and the Persian-speaking world. His Mathnawī, composed in Konya, is considered one of the greatest poems of the Persian language. Rumi's works are written mostly in Persian, but occasionally he also used Turkish, Arabic, and Greek, in his verse. Rumi has been described as the "most popular poet" and the "best selling poet" in the United States. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into various formats. Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turks, Greeks, Pashtuns, other Central Asian Muslims, and the Muslims of South Asia have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries. Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (Persian: )ﺟﻼلاﻟﺪﯾﻦ ﻣﺤﻤﺪ روﻣﯽ, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī ()ﺟﻼلاﻟﺪﯾﻦ ﻣﺤﻤﺪ ﺑﻠﺨﻰ, Mevlânâ/Mawlānā (ﻣﻮﻻﻧﺎ, "our master"), Mevlevî/Mawlawī (ﻣﻮﻟﻮی, "my master"), and more popularly simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob, Abdolkarim Soroush, Hossein Elahi Ghomshei, Sir Dr. Influenced by Muhammad, Al-Ghazali, Muhaqqeq Termezi, Baha-ud-din Zakariya, Attār, Sanā'ī, Abu Sa'īd Abulḫayr, Ḫaraqānī, Bayazīd Bistāmī, Sultan Walad, Šamse Tabrīzī Influenced Mathnawī-ye ma'nawī, Dīwān-e Shams-e Tabrīzī, Fīhi mā fīhi
Resting place Tomb of Mevlana Rumi,Mevlana Museum, Konya, Turkey Ethnicity ģ0 September 1207 Wakhsh, or Balkh Khwarezmian Empire( Iran )ġ7 December 1273 (age 66) Konya, Sultanate of Rum For other uses, see Rumi (disambiguation).