Jelaluddin Rumi

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207–1273) was a Persian Sufi poet, theologian, and scholar born in Balkh (now in present-day Afghanistan). He met the spiritual mentor Shamsuddin of Tabriz in 1244, which profoundly influenced his mystical poetry, and later dictated his monumental work Masnavi-ye Ma’nawi to Husamuddin Ghalabi until his death in Konya.