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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, 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. Rumi's influence has transcended national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Afghans, Tajiks, Turks, Kurds, Greeks, Central Asian Muslims, as well as Muslims of South Asia have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rumi has received more than 9,592,117 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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  • 9.6M

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  • 83.26

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  • 103

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Fīhi mā fīh
1961
Mas̲navī
Body, Mind & Spirit
Jelaluddin Rumi, a thirteenth century Sufi master, is recognized as one of the greatest spiritual geniuses of all time, and has been one of the most popular spiritual voices in North America for the last decade. In Jewels of Remembrance, the translators have compiled a collection of literary gems representative of Rumi's spiritual guidance, that will be meaningful to people who follow both Western and Eastern traditions. As a daybook, the format offers jewels of Rumi's wisdom that are easily accessible to the reader.
1851
Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīzī
Philosophy
Rumi's short poems have many tones and effects: some of them are quick, joyful, and whimsical; some are finely faceted abstract statements; some probe the inward space of patience and longing. Moyne and Barks translated these poems using a free-verse style, connecting these poems with great American spiritual poets such as Walt Whitman and Gary Snyder.
1952
Rumi
Poetry
Considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, The Big Red Book is perhaps the greatest work of Rumi, the medieval Sufi mystic who also happens to be the bestselling poet in America. Rumi was born in 1207 to a long line of Islamic theologians and lawyers on the eastern edge of the Persian Empire in what is now Afghanistan. In order to escape the invading Mongol armies of Genghis Khan, his family moved west to a town now found in Turkey, where he eventually became the leader of a school of whirling dervishes. It was a fateful day in 1244 when he met Shams Tabriz, a wild mystic with rare gifts and insight. The renowned scholar Rumi had found a soul mate and friend who would become his spiritual mentor and literary muse. "What I had thought of before as God," Rumi said, "I met today in a human being." Out of their friendship, Rumi wrote thousands of lyric poems and short quatrains in honor of his friend Shams Tabriz. They are poems of divine epiphany, spiritual awakening, friendship, and love. For centuries, Rumi's collection of these verses has traditionally been bound in a red cover, hence the title of this inspired classic of spiritual literature.
1991
Rubāʻīyāt
1974
Rumi Fables Re-told for Children
2003

Page views of Rumis by language

Over the past year Rumi has had the most page views in the with 1,462,076 views, followed by Persian (723,769), and Turkish (562,548). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Italian (1,703.56%), Korean (120.99%), and Gan (116.85%)

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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