Rumi

Rumi was born on 30 September 1207, in Balkh or in Wakhsh according to the sources, the son of the theologian and mystic Baha al-Din Walad. His family moved west before the Mongol threat and settled in Konya, in Anatolia, where he succeeded his father, who died in 1231, at the head of a religious school. A jurist and preacher, he was transformed by his meeting, in November 1244, with the wandering dervish Shams of Tabriz, who disappeared in December 1248; his loss inspired a copious lyric poetry. The order of the whirling dervishes was born from his teaching. He died in Konya on 17 December 1273.

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