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Rumi

1207 - 1273

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Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (Persian: جلال‌الدین محمّد رومی), or simply Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a Sufi mystic and poet whose followers went on to found the Mevlevi Order most famous for its whirling dervishes – a practice that he instigated. Rumi is a seminal figure in Sufism, or mystical Islam, whose thought and works loom large in both Persian literature and mystic poetry in general, with his translated works being enjoyed globally to this day. Rumi's works are written in his mother tongue, Persian. He occasionally used the Arabic language and single Turkish and Greek words in his verse. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 109 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 103 in 2024). Rumi is the 26th most popular writer, the most popular biography from Afghanistan and the most popular Afghan Writer.

Rumi is most famous for his poetry and his work in Sufism.

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Among writers, Rumi ranks 26 out of 7,302. Before him are T. S. Eliot, Ovid, Alexandre Dumas, Albert Camus, Hesiod, and Anton Chekhov. After him are Petrarch, Honoré de Balzac, Aesop, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Gabriel García Márquez, and Giovanni Boccaccio.

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Among people born in 1207, Rumi ranks 1. After him are Batu Khan, Elizabeth of Hungary, Henry III of England, Philip I, Count of Savoy, Henry II, Duke of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Ottone Visconti, and Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq. Among people deceased in 1273, Rumi ranks 1. After him are Baldwin II, Latin Emperor, Muhammad I of Granada, Al-Qurtubi, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany, and Thomas Bérard.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Rumi ranks 1 out of 177. After him are Al-Farabi (872), Mahmud of Ghazni (971), Ashraf Ghani (1949), Roxana (-347), Ahmad Shah Durrani (1722), Abbas the Great (1571), Mohammed Zahir Shah (1914), Hamid Karzai (1957), Amanullah Khan (1892), Hasan Akhund (1945), and Burhanuddin Rabbani (1940).

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Among WRITERS In Afghanistan

Among writers born in Afghanistan, Rumi ranks 1. After him are Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441), Khaled Hosseini (1965), Sanai (1080), Gulbadan Begum (1523), Unsuri (980), Rabia Balkhi (1000), Farrukhi Sistani (980), Atiq Rahimi (1962), Abdul Hakim Haqqani (1967), Nadia Anjuman (1981), and Niloofar Rahmani (1992).

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