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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 13th-century poet, Hanafi faqih (jurist), Maturidi theologian (mutakallim), and Sufi mystic born during the Khwarazmian Empire. Rumi's works were written mostly in Persian, but occasionally he also used Turkish, Arabic and Greek in his verse. His Masnavi (Mathnawi), composed in Konya, is considered one of the greatest poems of the Persian language. Rumi's influence has transcended national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Afghans, Tajiks, Turks, Kurds, Greeks, Central Asian Muslims, as well as Muslims of the Indian subcontinent have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. 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

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), Nadia Anjuman (1981), Niloofar Rahmani (1992), and Nadia Ghulam (1985).

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