What is "rumi"

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī , also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī , Mawlānā/Mevlânâ (, "our master"), Mevlevî/Mawlawī (, "my master"), and more popularly simply as Rumi (1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turks, Greeks, Pashtuns, other Central Asian Muslims, and the Muslims of South Asia have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into various formats. Rumi has been described as the "most popular poet" and the "best selling poet" in the United States.

Rumi's works are written mostly in Persian, but occasionally he also used Turkish, Arabic, and Greek, in his verse. His Mathnawī, composed in Konya, is considered one of the greatest poems of the Persian language. His works are widely read today in their original language across Greater Iran and the Persian-speaking world. Translations of his works are very popular, most notably in Turkey, Azerbaijan, the United States, and South Asia. His poetry has influenced Persian literature, but also Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Azerbaijani, Punjabi, Hindi, and Urdu, as well as the literature of some other Turkic, Iranian, and Indo-Aryan languages including Chagatai, Pashto, and Bengali.

Rumi may refer to:

• Rumi, an Afghan poet and philosopher
• a name for somebody from Rûm ("Rome"), that is one of the following:
  • the Byzantine Empire
  • Greek Christianity
  • Anatolia (Asia Minor), at some time part of the Roman Empire
  • A Seljukid or Ottoman Muslim from Anatolia or, later, the Balkans; in Ottoman times, particularly one who spoke a more or less refined form of Turkish.
• Rumi (given name), a Japanese given name
• Rumi calendar
• Rumi digits, a numeration system used in North Africa (and also in Andalusia) between the 10th and 17th centuries, most intensely in Fez, Morocco. Also called "zimam letters, Roman letters", or "Fez letters".
• Rumi script, the Malay alphabet
• Shafi Imam Rumi, a guerrilla fighter of the Bangladesh Liberation War