Rumi

Sufi poet

1207 – 1273 · 66 years · Konya · Middle East

Persian mystic poet, author of the Masnavi; his followers founded the order of whirling dervishes.

Portrait: Hossein Behzad · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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