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The
name Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi stands for Love and
ecstatic flight into the infinite. Rumi is one of
the great spiritual masters and poetical geniuses
of mankind and was the founder of the Mawlawi Sufi
order, a leading mystical brotherhood of Islam.
Rumi
was born in Wakhsh (Tajikistan) under the
administration of Balkh in 30 September 1207 to a
family of learned theologians. Escaping the Mongol
invasion and destruction, Rumi and his family
traveled extensively in the Muslim lands, performed
pilgrimage to Mecca and finally settled in Konya,
Anatolia, then part of Seljuk Empire. When his
father Bahaduddin Valad passed away, Rumi succeeded
his father in 1231 as professor in religious
sciences. Rumi 24 years old, was an already
accomplished scholar in religious and positive
sciences.
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