His life is described in Shams ud-Din Ahmad Aflāki's Manāqib ul-Ārifīn (written between 13). Rumi was born in present day Afghanistan, in the city of Balkh. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into various formats He has been described as the "most popular poet in America" in 2007. His poetry has influenced Persian literature as well as the literature of the Urdu and Bengali languages. Translations of his works are very popular in other countries. His original works are widely read in their original language across the Persian-speaking world. Although Rumi's works were written in Persian, Rumi's importance is considered to transcend national and ethnic borders. A Persian literary renaissance (in the 8th/9th century) started in regions of Sistan, Khorāsān and Transoxiana and by the 10th/11th century, it reinforced the Persian language as the preferred literary and cultural language in the Persian Islamic world.
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Rumi's works are written all in the New Persian language. Following his death, his followers and his son Sultan Walad founded the Mawlawīyah Sufi Order, also known as the Order of the Whirling Dervishes, famous for its Sufi dance known as the samāʿ ceremony. He was buried in Konya and his shrine became a place of pilgrimage. He lived most of his life under the Sultanate of Rum, where he produced his works and died in 1273 CE. This was where he lived most of his life, and here he composed one of the crowning glories of Persian literature which profoundly affected the culture of the area. Rumi's family traveled west, first performing the Hajj and eventually settling in the Anatolian city Konya (capital of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, now located in Turkey). Due to quarrels between different dynasties in Khorasan, opposition to the Khwarizmid Shahs who were considered devious by Bahā ud-Dīn Walad (Rumi's father) or fear of the impending Mongol cataclysm, his father decided to migrate westwards. His birthplace and native language both indicate a Persian heritage. Both these cities were at the time included in the Greater Persian cultural sphere of Khorasan, the easternmost province of historical Persia, and were part of the Khwarezmian Empire. Wakhsh belonged to the larger province of Balkh, and in the year Rumi was born, his father was an appointed scholar there. Some scholars, however, argue that he may have been born in Wakhsh, a small town located at the river Wakhsh in what is now Tajikistan.
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Īccording to tradition, Rumi was born in Balkh, Khorasan (now in Afghanistan), the hometown of his father's family. 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. Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī ( Persian: مولانا جلال الدین محمد بلخى), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī ( Persian: 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, jurist, theologian, and mystic. Sir Mohammad Iqbāl, Tāhir ul-Qadrī, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Abdolkarim Soroush Masnavi, Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi, Fihi Ma FihiĪttār, Sanā'ī, Abu Sa'īd Abulḫayr, Ḫaraqānī, Bayazīd Bistāmī, Šamse Tabrīzī Sufi poetry, Sufi whirling, Muraqaba, Dhikr