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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.
2017
Khayam, Rumi, Hafez, Moulana Shah Maghsoud
1991
The Big Red Book: The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship
2010
Unseen Poems
2019
Selected Lyric Poetry of Jelaluddin Rumi
1981
2004
Re-creations of Rumi
1988
100 Poems of Rumi
2012
180 Quatrains from the Persian
2000
1968
2017
2018
Speak with the Music of Poetry to Stressed-Out Souls Across the Centuries
2003
1968
Selections In English
2005
Book Two
1270
Swallowing the Sun
2007
2026
2019
Forty Odes by Rumi
1987
Selected Poems
2001
گزیدهٔ فیه ما فیه
1396
1982
Voice of Longing
1994
The Book of Love
2002
Passionate Poems of Rumi
1999
Quotes and Poetry
2016
2025
2020
In the Arms of the Beloved
1997
Le Livre de Shams de Tabrîz
2020
Fountain of Fire
1994
1946
2008
The Quatrains of Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi]
2018
2001
2025
The Art of Loving
2012
1273
An Inner Journey Guided by Rumi
2015
The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi
2006
Songs of Soul-Meeting
1999
Literal and Poetic Translations of Rumi
1995
1995
1955
2020
2018
Bridge to the Soul
2007
2022
Poetry of Rumi
2013
Whispers of the Beloved
2012
2020
Book Four
1270
The Arabic Poems of Rumi
2016
1273
2026
2000
A Spiritual Treasury
1838
2020
1258
Soul Fury: Rumi and Shams Tabriz on Friendship
2014
Dapatkan EX Kembali
2013
1270
2001
Gardens of the Beloved
2003
In the Rose Garden with Rumi
2007
2022
2006
A New Translation of Selected Poems
1762
2011
Selections from His Stories, Poems, and Discourses--Annotated & Explained
2004
Book Three
1270
Hidden Music
1273
Book Six
2012
Poems from the Rubiayat of Mevlana Rumi
2014
1999
Re-creations of Rumi
1769
1992
2009
2015
A New Translation of Selected Poems
2013
2025
100 Quotes on Life, Love and Happiness
2016
Rumi's Odes to Shams of Tabriz
2017
The Fire of Love
2011
1981
A Treasury of Wisdom from the Poet of the Soul
2000
1273
The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
2012
Fragments, Ecstasies
1999
Poet and Mystic
1950
1757
101 Odes by Rumi
2011
2015
2011
1989
2015
2023
Sayings and Aphorisms on Islamic Spirituality by Ibn al-Jawzī, Ibn al-Qayyim, al-Ghazālī, Rumi and Other Great Scholars, Ascetics and Mystics
2018
Teaching Stories and Fables
2016
2019
2019
1997
The Suppressed Poems of Rumi on Love, Heresy, and Intoxication
2006
Quatrains of Rumi
1986
2017
Selected Poems
2022
1990
Ecstatic Body, Awakened Soul
2010
Guidance on the Path of Wisdom and Unity
2017
2002
A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems
2001
Unseen Poems; Edited and Translated by Brad Gooch and Maryam Mortaz
2019
Rumi and Human Friendship
2011
2014
2003
A New Illuminated Rumi
2005
A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance : Containing 365 Selections from the Wis of Rumi
1996
Poetry Interspersed With Stories of Rumi and Shams
1994
2018
Arabic Poems of Rumi
2017
105 Stories and Fables that Illumine, Delight, and Inform
2021
2000
1270
1991
2017
150 Poems That Speak to the Heart
2009
1250
New Expanded Edition
2018
Rambunctious Teaching Stories from the Mathnawi of Jelaluddin Rumi
1990
Second Selection, Poems 201-400
1979
2025
Radical Techniques for Beholding the Divine
2007
1273
