WRITER

Rumi

1207 - 1273

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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 (jurist), Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian (mutakallim), 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 10,418,223 page views. His biography is available in 103 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 101 in 2019). Rumi is the 26th most popular writer (up from 28th 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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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 103

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rumi ranks 26 out of 7,302. Before him are Anton Chekhov, Petrarch, Honoré de Balzac, Aesop, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ovid. After him are Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Giovanni Boccaccio, Denis Diderot, Agatha Christie, Horace, and Ernest Hemingway.

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Contemporaries

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, Philip I, Count of Savoy, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Ottone Visconti, and Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq. Among people deceased in 1273, Rumi ranks 1. After him are Muhammad I of Granada, Al-Qurtubi, Baldwin II, Latin Emperor, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany, and Thomas Bérard.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Rumi ranks 1 out of 177. After him are Al-Farabi (872), Abbas the Great (1571), Roxana (-347), Hamid Karzai (1957), Abu Dawood (817), Humayun (1508), Mahmud of Ghazni (971), Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441), Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (1837), Mohammed Zahir Shah (1914), and Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953).

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Among WRITERS In Afghanistan

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), Nadia Ghulam (1985), and Niloofar Rahmani (1992).

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