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.
