Sufism inspired writings of Persian poet and mystic Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi; these writings express the longing of the soul for union with the divine. Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī - also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, Mevlânâ/Mawlānā (مولانا, "our master"), Mevlevî/Mawlawī (مولوی, "my master") and more popularly simply as Rumi - was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian and Sufi mystic who lived in Konya, a city of Ottoman Empire (Today's Turkey). His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages, and he has been described as the most popular poet and the best-selling poet in the United States. His poetry has influenced Persian literature, but also Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Azerbaijani, Punjabi, Hindi, and Urdu, as well as the literature of some other Turkic, Iranian, and Indo-Aryan languages including Chagatai, Pashto, and Bengali. Due to quarrels between different dynasties in Khorāṣān, opposition to the Khwarizmid Shahs who were considered devious by his father, Bahā ud-Dīn Wālad or fear of the impending Mongol cataclysm, his father decided to migrate westwards, eventually settling in the Anatolian city Konya, where he lived most of his life, composed one of the crowning glories of Persian literature, and profoundly affected the culture of the area. When his father died, Rumi, aged 25, inherited his position as the head of an Islamic school. One of Baha' ud-Din's students, Sayyed Burhan ud-Din Muhaqqiq Termazi, continued to train Rumi in the Shariah as well as the Tariqa, especially that of Rumi's father. For nine years, Rumi practised Sufism as a disciple of Burhan ud-Din until the latter died in 1240 or 1241. Rumi's public life then began: he became an Islamic Jurist, issuing fatwas and giving sermons in the mosques of Konya. He also served as a Molvi (Islamic teacher) and taught his adherents in the madrassa. During this period, Rumi also travelled to Damascus and is said to have spent four years there. It was his meeting with the dervish Shams-e Tabrizi on 15 November 1244 that completely changed his life. From an accomplished teacher and jurist, Rumi was transformed into an ascetic. On the night of 5 December 1248, as Rumi and Shams were talking, Shams was called to the back door. He went out, never to be seen again. Rumi's love for, and his bereavement at the death of, Shams found their expression in an outpouring of lyric poems, Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi. He himself went out searching for Shams and journeyed again to Damascus. Rumi found another companion in Salaḥ ud-Din-e Zarkub, a goldsmith. After Salah ud-Din's death, Rumi's scribe and favourite student, Hussam-e Chalabi, assumed the role of Rumi's companion. Hussam implored Rumi to write more. Rumi spent the next 12 years of his life in Anatolia dictating the six volumes of this masterwork, the Masnavi, to Hussam. In December 1273, Rumi fell ill and died on the 17th of December in Konya.
Series
Books
Rumi
The Big Red Book: The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship
2010
Rumi
Unseen Poems
2019
The Ruins of the Heart
Selected Lyric Poetry of Jelaluddin Rumi
1981
The Purity of Desire
100 Poems of Rumi
2012
Rumi - Thief of Sleep
180 Quatrains from the Persian
2000
Mystical Poems of Rumi
1968
The Spiritual Poems of Rumi
2018
Rumi and Friends
Speak with the Music of Poetry to Stressed-Out Souls Across the Centuries
2003
The Mystical Poems of Rumi 1
1968
Masnawi Sacred Texts of Islam
Book Two
1270
Rumi
Swallowing the Sun
2007
These Branching Moments
Forty Odes by Rumi
1987
Rumi
Selected Poems
2001
Rumi
Voice of Longing
1994
Rumi
The Book of Love
2002
Hush, Don't Say Anything to God
Passionate Poems of Rumi
1999
A Collection of Rumi
Quotes and Poetry
2016
The Friendship Poems of Rumi
2020
Rumi
In the Arms of the Beloved
1997
Rumi
Fountain of Fire
1994
The Pocket Rumi
2001
Rumi
The Art of Loving
2012
Birdsong
1273
The Universe in You
An Inner Journey Guided by Rumi
2015
Love
The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi
2006
The Glance
Songs of Soul-Meeting
1999
Rending the Veil
Literal and Poetic Translations of Rumi
1995
Selections from the Poems and Ghazals of Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi
1995
The Love Poems of Rumi
2020
Rumi
Bridge to the Soul
2007
Gold
2022
Pure Water
Poetry of Rumi
2013
Rumi
Whispers of the Beloved
2012
Masnawi Sacred Texts of Islam
Book Four
1270
Love Is My Savior
The Arabic Poems of Rumi
2016
The Collected Poems of Shams Tabrizi
1273
Words of Paradise
2000
Rumi
A Spiritual Treasury
1838
Poems of the Orient
2020
Rumi
1258
Rumi
Soul Fury: Rumi and Shams Tabriz on Friendship
2014
The Masnavi
1270
Rumi, Dancing the Flame
2001
Rumi
Gardens of the Beloved
2003
Call to Love
In the Rose Garden with Rumi
2007
A Year with Rumi
2006
Rumi
A New Translation of Selected Poems
1762
The Rumi Daybook
2011
Masnawi Sacred Texts of Islam
Book Three
1270
Rumi
Hidden Music
1273
Masnawi Sacred Texts of Islam
Book Six
2012
RUMI - 53 Secrets from the Tavern of Love
Poems from the Rubiayat of Mevlana Rumi
2014
Rumi The Path of Love Card Set
1999
مختارات من ديوان شمس الدين تبريزي لمولانا جلال الدين الرومي
2009
Collected Poetical Works of Rumi
2015
The Rumi Collection
2025
Warriors of Love
Rumi's Odes to Shams of Tabriz
2017
Night and Sleep
1981
The Illustrated Rumi
A Treasury of Wisdom from the Poet of the Soul
2000
The Essential Rumi
1273
Rumi's Little Book of Life
The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
2012
Rumi
Fragments, Ecstasies
1999
CRAZY AS WE ARE
1757
The Masnavi I Manavi of Rumi Complete 6 Books
2011
Rumi Illustrated
2023
Rumi's Little Book of Love and Laughter
Teaching Stories and Fables
2016
Drops Of Wisdom From Mesnevi
2019
The Illuminated Rumi
1997
The Forbidden Rumi
The Suppressed Poems of Rumi on Love, Heresy, and Intoxication
2006
Unseen Rain
Quatrains of Rumi
1986
Like This
1990
Rumi's Four Essential Practices
Ecstatic Body, Awakened Soul
2010
A Treasury of Rumi
Guidance on the Path of Wisdom and Unity
2017
The Soul of Rumi
A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems
2001
Rumi
Unseen Poems; Edited and Translated by Brad Gooch and Maryam Mortaz
2019
Just Being Here
Rumi and Human Friendship
2011
Tales from Masnavi of Rumi
2003
One Song
A New Illuminated Rumi
2005
Jewels of Remembrance
A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance : Containing 365 Selections from the Wis of Rumi
1996
Say I Am You
Poetry Interspersed With Stories of Rumi and Shams
1994
The Book of Rumi
105 Stories and Fables that Illumine, Delight, and Inform
2021
Cântecele iubirii
2000
Look! This Is Love
1991
Rumi's Little Book of Love
150 Poems That Speak to the Heart
2009
The Book of What Is in It
1250
The Essential Rumi
New Expanded Edition
2018
The Mystical Poems of Rumi 2
Second Selection, Poems 201-400
1979
The Spiritual Practices of Rumi
Radical Techniques for Beholding the Divine
2007
Masnavi
1273
