Author

Books by Jalal al-Din Rumi

Jalal al-Din Rumi was a thirteenth-century Persian poet, jurist, and Sufi mystic born in 1207 in what is now Afghanistan. He lived most of his adult life in Konya in present-day Turkey, where he founded the Mevlevi Sufi order, known in the West as the Whirling Dervishes. His encounter with the mystic Shams-i-Tabriz in 1244 transformed his poetry. The Masnavi, his largest work, runs to approximately 25,000 rhyming couplets across six books. Rumi died in 1273. He remains one of the best-selling poets in the United States and one of the most widely read poets in the world.