Rumi who is he

This story has been updated to reflect that scholars disagree about where exactly Rumi was born. News U. Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline. HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Follow Us. Terms Privacy Policy. Part of HuffPost Entertainment. All rights reserved. Brad Gooch. Rumi was born in Central Asia, most likely in present-day Tajikistan, near the border of Afghanistan.

His father and grandfather were well-known Muslim preachers and jurists, and he was expected to follow this more traditional path. Turkish soldiers, members of the historical Ottoman military band of Mehter, perform outside the Mevlana museum during a ceremony, one of many marking the rd anniversary of the death of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, in Konya, Turkey, December 7, As a boy, Rumi reported seeing angels.

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Suggest a correction. What's Hot. Aphorisms attributed to Rumi circulate daily on social media, offering motivation. I am a carpenter of my own soul. Rumi is often described as the best-selling poet in the United States. He is typically referred to as a mystic, a saint, a Sufi, an enlightened man. Curiously, however, although he was a lifelong scholar of the Koran and Islam, he is less frequently described as a Muslim.

Its fifty thousand lines are mostly in Persian, but they are riddled with Arabic excerpts from Muslim scripture; the book frequently alludes to Koranic anecdotes that offer moral lessons.

The work, which some scholars consider unfinished, has been nicknamed the Persian Koran. Fatemeh Keshavarz, a professor of Persian studies at the University of Maryland, told me that Rumi probably had the Koran memorized, given how often he drew from it in his poetry.

Rumi was born in the early thirteenth century, in what is now Afghanistan. He later settled in Konya, in present-day Turkey, with his family.

His father was a preacher and religious scholar, and he introduced Rumi to Sufism. Rumi continued his theological education in Syria, where he studied the more traditional legal codes of Sunni Islam, and later returned to Konya as a seminary teacher. Hollywood's alleged attempt at "whitewashing" the history of Turkey and Persia modern day Iran , has led to an outcry on the internet. But who was Rumi, the man at the centre of this discussion? Let's take a closer look at his life.

He is popularly known as "Rumi" — a name which comes from Arabic and literally means "Roman. He is also known as Mawlana in Iran and Turkey, which is a term of Arabic origin meaning "our master.

Another word of Arabic origin, Mevlevi — meaning "my master" — is also often used to refer to him. He found inspiration in the friendship of Shams Tabrizi, a great Persian scholar. Rumi was a traditional religious teacher until the age of 37, when he met a wandering dervish a Muslim who attempts to get closer to God by leading a life of poverty named Shams Tabrizi, who changed the course of his life. Shams, who soon after became a devotee and intimate friend of Rumi, is credited as his spiritual mentor and is mentioned with great reverence in his poems.

Remembering his first encounter with the man, Rumi wrote: "What I thought of before as God, I met today in a human being. Their partnership was short-lived. Three years after they met Shams disappeared. It's rumoured he was murdered by one of Rumi's jealous followers.

His poems are passionate, spiritual and intense. He would frequently write about topics such as human desire and the nature of love. Rumi always encouraged tolerance, peace and compassion.