Rumi - Name

Name

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī (Persian: جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى‎ ) is also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (جلال‌الدین محمد رومی ). He is widely known by the sobriquet Mawlānā/Molānā (Persian: مولانا‎ ) in Iran and Afghanistan, and popularly known as Mevlānā in Turkey. According to the authoritative Rumi biographer, Professor Lewis Franklin of Chicago University: "The Anatolian peninsula which had belonged to the Byzantine, or eastern Roman empire, had only relatively recently been conquered by Muslims and even when it came to be controlled by Turkish Muslims rulers, it was still known to Arabs, Persians and Turks as the geographical area of Rumi. As such, there are a number of historical personages born in or associated with Anatolia known as Rumi, literally “from Rome”. In Muslim countries, therefore, Jalal al-Din is not generally known as "Rumi" The term مولوی Mawlavi (Persian) and Mevlevi (Turkish) which means "having to do with the master" is also used for him.