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The Mevlana Museum in Konya, built around Rumi’s tomb.Image: culture · Asia
The death of Rumi
Jalal al-Din Rumi, the greatest Sufi poet of the Persian language, died at Konya in Anatolia on 17 December 1273. Born in Balkh around 1207, he had come to Konya as a young man with his father, a preacher; his friendship with the wandering mystic Shams of Tabriz turned him into a poet, and his long spiritual poem, the Masnavi, runs to some 25,000 couplets. His followers became the Mevlevi order, known in the West as the whirling dervishes, and the anniversary of his death is still kept in Konya.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Rumi ↗
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