Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī's Death Anniversary


Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, commonly known simply as Rumi, who passed away on 17 December 1273, in Konya (present-day Turkey), aged 66, was a 13th-century Sufi mystic, poet, and Islamic scholar whose works have had a profound and lasting influence across the Muslim world and beyond. He is one of the most widely read and best-selling poets in the world today. 

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