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Rumi

Type Figure Region Anatolia Time 1207–1273 Also known as Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi、Mevlana、Mawlana、贾拉勒丁·鲁米

A 13th-century Sufi poet and religious thinker born in Khurasan, who fled the Mongol invasion in the 1220s and settled in Konya, Anatolia;…

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  1. 1207–1215Balkh · KhurasanBorn in Balkh to the renowned religious scholar Baha al-Din Walad, he received an education in Islamic classics and Persian cultural traditions in his youth.
  2. 1220–1228en route in Anatolia · AnatoliaThreatened by the Mongol invasion in the 1220s, he moved west with his father through Persia, Iraq, and Syria to Asia Minor; the warfare and displacement he witnessed laid the groundwork for the universal concern in his later poetry.
  3. 1228–1273Konya · RumSettling in Konya, capital of the Sultanate of Rum, he succeeded his father's teaching post and achieved spiritual awakening after meeting Shams Tabrizi, composing numerous Persian lyric poems and the six-volume Masnavi, forming the whirling dervish Sufi tradition that endures to this day.

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