Rumi
(Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī)
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(name) famous Sufi (male) of Konya (Turkey), born 1207, died 1273. |
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Founder of the Mevlevī (Arabic: Mawlawīyyah) order of “whirling dervishes”; author of the famous mystical poem the Mathnawī, composed in Persian and which contains his whole doctrine. |
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Introduction to Sufi Doctrine (by Titus Burckhardt) |
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