1207 - 1273
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, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rumi has received more than 9,715,614 page views. His biography is available in 101 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 99 in 2019). Rumi is the 28th most popular writer (up from 34th in 2019), 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, Rumi ranks 28 out of 5,755. Before him are Anton Chekhov, Albert Camus, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Petrarch, Anne Frank, and Giovanni Boccaccio. After him are Honoré de Balzac, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens, Horace, Alexandre Dumas, and Aeschylus.
1860 - 1904
HPI: 83.77
Rank: 22
1913 - 1960
HPI: 83.70
Rank: 23
1900 - 1944
HPI: 83.63
Rank: 24
1304 - 1374
HPI: 83.55
Rank: 25
1929 - 1945
HPI: 83.42
Rank: 26
1313 - 1375
HPI: 83.11
Rank: 27
1207 - 1273
HPI: 83.10
Rank: 28
1799 - 1850
HPI: 82.84
Rank: 29
1899 - 1961
HPI: 82.72
Rank: 30
1812 - 1870
HPI: 82.45
Rank: 31
65 BC - 8 BC
HPI: 82.14
Rank: 32
1802 - 1870
HPI: 81.83
Rank: 33
525 BC - 456 BC
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 34
Among people born in 1207, Rumi ranks 1. After him are Batu Khan, Elizabeth of Hungary, Henry III of England, Henry II, Duke of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Philip I, Count of Savoy, Ottone Visconti, and Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq. Among people deceased in 1273, Rumi ranks 1. After him are Muhammad I of Granada, Baldwin II, Latin Emperor, Al-Qurtubi, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany, and Thomas Bérard.
1207 - 1273
HPI: 83.10
Rank: 1
1207 - 1255
HPI: 78.39
Rank: 2
1207 - 1231
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 3
1207 - 1272
HPI: 70.78
Rank: 4
1207 - 1248
HPI: 56.95
Rank: 5
1207 - 1282
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 6
1207 - 1285
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 7
1207 - 1295
HPI: 54.30
Rank: 8
1207 - 1258
HPI: 51.65
Rank: 9
1207 - 1273
HPI: 83.10
Rank: 1
1194 - 1273
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 2
1217 - 1273
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 3
1214 - 1273
HPI: 60.01
Rank: 4
1227 - 1273
HPI: 59.85
Rank: 5
1300 - 1273
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 6
Among people born in Afghanistan, Rumi ranks 1 out of 145. After him are Al-Farabi (872), Hamid Karzai (1957), Abbas the Great (1571), Mohammed Zahir Shah (1914), Burhanuddin Rabbani (1940), Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953), Hafizullah Amin (1929), Mohammed Daoud Khan (1909), Alauddin Khalji (1266), Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441), and Amanullah Khan (1892).
1207 - 1273
HPI: 83.10
Rank: 1
872 - 951
HPI: 80.09
Rank: 2
1957 - Present
HPI: 76.22
Rank: 3
1571 - 1629
HPI: 75.49
Rank: 4
1914 - 2007
HPI: 72.54
Rank: 5
1940 - 2011
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 6
1953 - 2001
HPI: 70.22
Rank: 7
1929 - 1979
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 8
1909 - 1978
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 9
1266 - 1316
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 10
1441 - 1501
HPI: 69.15
Rank: 11
1892 - 1960
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 12
Among writers born in Afghanistan, Rumi ranks 1. After him are Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441), Khaled Hosseini (1965), Sanai (1080), Rabia Balkhi (1000), Gulbadan Begum (1523), Unsuri (980), Farrukhi Sistani (980), Atiq Rahimi (1962), Nadia Anjuman (1981), Niloofar Rahmani (1992), and Fatima Bhutto (1982).
1207 - 1273
HPI: 83.10
Rank: 1
1441 - 1501
HPI: 69.15
Rank: 2
1965 - Present
HPI: 61.34
Rank: 3
1080 - 1131
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 4
1000 - Present
HPI: 51.65
Rank: 5
1523 - 1603
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 6
980 - 1039
HPI: 49.75
Rank: 7
980 - 1037
HPI: 49.66
Rank: 8
1962 - Present
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 9
1981 - 2005
HPI: 34.31
Rank: 10
1992 - Present
HPI: 33.26
Rank: 11
1982 - Present
HPI: 24.28
Rank: 12