Hazrat Maulana Jalaal ud deen Ruumi
(Rahmatul Laahi ‘Alaieh)respectfully as Maulana ("our Master"), is a thirteenth-century Persian Soofie Saint Auliyaa Allaah, jurist, theologian, poet and one of the greatest spiritual masters of Islaam. He was known as Ruumi because he spent most of his life in the region known by Muslims as "Ruum," the Anatolian peninsula most of which had been conquered by the Seljuq Turks after centuries of rule by the Roman Empire.
He is acknowledged as the father of one of Islaam’s major Soofie orders, the Mevlevi order although its actual inception came about through his disciples. He was also often referred to by the Persian title, the ("great Master")...