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	Life of Rumi
		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.
		Rumi is the author of six volume didactic epic work, the `Mathnawi', called as the 'Koran in Persian' by Jami, and discourses, `Fihi ma Fihi', written to introduce his disciples into metaphysics.
	www.rumi.org.uk /life.html (1587 words)

	Konya, Turkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rumi was initiated into Sufism by Burhan al-Din, a former pupil of his father's, under whose tutelage he progressed through the various teachings of the Sufi tradition.
		Rumi passed away on the evening of December 17, 1273, a time traditionally known as his 'wedding night,' for he was now completely united with god.
		Adjacent to Rumi's burial is that of his father, Baha al-Din Valed, whose sarcophagus stands upright, for legends tell that when Rumi was buried, his father's tomb "rose and bowed in reverence." The tombs of Rumi's son and other Sufi sheikhs are clustered about the shrine.
	www.sacredsites.com /middle_east/turkey/konya.htm (1501 words)

	Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He died on December 17, 1273 in Konya in present day Turkey; Rumi was laid to rest beside his father, and a splendid shrine was erected over his tomb.
		Rumi's major work is Masnavi-ye Manavi (Spiritual Couplets), a six-volume poem regarded by many Sufis as second in importance only to the holy Qur'an.
		Rumi, Jalal al-Din, a biography by Professor Iraj Bashiri, University of Minnesota.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jalal_al-Din_Muhammad_Rumi (872 words)

	Iransaga - Jalal al-Din Rumi, Persian Sufi Sage and Poet
		Rumi's father Muhammad ibn Hussain Khatibi, known as Baha' al-Din Walad (entitled Sultan al-'ulama'), was an outstanding Sufi in Balkh.
		The first poem ever written by Rumi is in a letter to Shams, and from the time of their encounter until Rumi's death, the latter never ceased to compose poetry.
		Rumi became so distressed that he sent him many letters and messages containing his first poems in Persian and Arabic and finally, after having discovered that he was in Damascus, sent his own son Sultan Walad after him.
	www.art-arena.com /rumi.htm (1301 words)

	Stories from Rumi (Myth-Folklore Online)
		The 13th century was a turbulent time, and Rumi's family fled from their home in Afghanistan to Turkey, where Rumi became the leader of a religious community.
		Rumi's early life is unremarkable; he was a scholar and the leader of a religious community, but he does not yet appear to have found his voice in poetry and song.
		For example, Rumi's followers are called the Mevlevi Order (derived from his name, Mevlana), and they continued to practice their distinctive whirling dance and worship in Turkey until this was outlawed by Ataturk when he founded the modern secular state of Turkey in the early 20th century.
	www.mythfolklore.net /3043mythfolklore/reading/rumi/background.htm (1194 words)

	Rumi Poetry - Persian and Iranian Poetry at Best Iran Travel.com
		Rumi is one of the most read and well known poets in the world.
		Jelaluddin Rumi was born in the Eastern part of the Ancient Persian Empire near Balkh (presently Afghanistan), on September 30, 1207.
		Rumi's poetry has a mystic connotation, a combination that is the universal language of the human soul.
	www.bestirantravel.com /culture/poetry/rumi.html (504 words)

	Rumi and the Mevleviye
		Signs of the Unseen: The Discourses of Jalaluddin Rumi, consists of translated excerpts from Rumi's talks, titled in Arabic Fihi ma fihi, (In It Whatever Is In It), although the text itself was written in Persian.
		The Essential Rumi consists of selections organized by topic from this collection of Rumi's poetry rendered by Coleman Barks, who has recently retired from his position in the English department at the University of Georgia.
		A Poem of Rumi's in Unseen Rain, rendered by Barks.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~godlas/rumimevlev.html (453 words)

	Whirling Dervishes in Istanbul Turkey, sufi, sufism,Whirling Dervishes in Turkey,sufi,sufis,sufism in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Prior to this encounter Rumi had been an eminent professor of religion and a highly attained mystic; after this he became an inspired poet and a great lover of humanity.
		Rumi was a man of knowledge and sanctity before meeting Shams, but only after the alchemy of this relationship was he able to fulfill Sayyid Burhaneddin's prediction that he would "drown men's souls in a fresh life and in the immeasurable abundance of God...
		The spiritual practices which Rumi would have known were aimed at transforming the compulsiveness of the false self and attaining Islam or "Submission" to a higher order of reality.
	www.lesartsturcs.com /whirling_dervishes (1659 words)

	Divan-e Shams by Rumi
		It is often said that Rumi had attained the level of a "Perfect Master" and as such, he often dwelled in the spiritual realms that were rarely visited by others of this world.
		Particularly in Divan-e Shams, Rumi has created such level of beauty through the use and mastery of musical rhythm and rhyme, that the reader not only can appreciate its wisdom, but also reach levels of ecstasy and mystical energy that is seldom found in other poems or any translations of his poetry.
		The translations are far from creating the ecstasy that Rumi creates and communicates, but it is hoped that they will point the reader in the same direction.
	www.rumionfire.com /shams/index.htm (641 words)

	Rumi Introduction
		Rumi’s love and honor for all religious traditions was not always popular in his day, and often provoked criticism from the more dogmatic.
		To Rumi’s followers such a disgrace of their teacher was intolerable, and they rose as one to rush the ignorant fool.
		Rumi wants us simply to see it for what it is. He wants us to be emotionally honest and not to get carried away with the form.
	www.littleknownpubs.com /RumiIntro.htm (2262 words)

	Persian Language & Literature: Molana Jalal-e-Din Mohammad Molavi Rumi
		Rumi continued with his education till he was 40 years old, although on his father's death Rumi succeeded him as a professor in the famous Madrasah at Qonya at the age of about 24 years.
		For this, Rumi draws on a variety of subjects and derives numerous examples from everyday life.
		Masnavi or Masnavi-e Maanavi is the best known work of Rumi, and he himself defined his work as a work of destruction, destruction of the worldly for the sake of embracing the Divine.
	www.iranchamber.com /literature/jrumi/molana_rumi.php (647 words)

	Rumi Poetry Book - Persian and Iranian Poetry at Best Iran Travel.com
		Rumi, who was strictly educated in religious law and philosophy, is viewed in the Islamic world as a spiritual descendant of two other great Sufi writers, Sana'i and Attar.
		In his work, Rumi tells us over and over that he is attempting to put into language the nature and significance of the invisible universe, a task he freely admits can only be achieved in part.
		The best explanation for Rumi's popularity may simply be that he was a very wonderful poet -- uniquely capable of transcending "outward appearances" and conjuring up the mystical "inward reality," yet entirely realistic and modest about the limitations of his words -- and there are very few such writers in the world.
	www.bestirantravel.com /culture/poetry/rumibook.html (519 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Essential Rumi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rumi (as he is known in the West), was known as Jelaluddin Balkhi by the Persians and Afghanis, from where he was born in 1207.
		Rumi was involved with the mystical tradition that continues to this day of the dervish (whirling dervishes are best known), and used it as a personal practice and as a teaching tool.
		Rumi also has an elegant series called the Solomon Poems, in which King Solomon is the embodiment of luminous divine wisdom, and the Queen of Sheba is the bodily soul.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0062509594 (1400 words)

	Rumi Bar in Miami
		Rumi is extremely over rated, it's always very packed, and the wait could last up to one hour to get in.
		As you enter Rumi you are greeted by a wonderful bar which leads onto the restaurant with the second level home to a lounge, dance area and VIP room.
		Rumi really is a place to visit, entrance will be tough unless you have a reservation so make sure the guest list is sorted or you're looking at your most glamourous and beautiful.
	www.worldsbestbars.com /city/miami/rumi-miami.htm (1045 words)

	RUMI: An Introduction by Nicholson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although the Eastern biographies of Rumi, like other lives of Persian saints, are to a large extent legendary, while his own works characteristically contribute virtually nothing in the shape of historical facts, we are fortunate in possessing some old and relatively trustworthy sources of information.
		Rumi's literary output, as stupendous in magnitude is sublime in content, consists of the very large collection of mystical odes, perhaps as many as 2,500, which make up the Diwan-i Shams-i Tabriz; the Mathnawi in six books of about 25,000 rhyming couplets; and the Ruba'iyat or quatrains, of which maybe about 1,600 are authentic.
		Yet the powerful intellect of Rumi the man never quite capitulates to the enthusiasm of Rumi the mystic; at the last moment there is a sudden drawing-back, a consciousness that certain matters are too secret and too holy to be communicated in words.
	www.globalwebpost.com /farooqm/study_res/rumi/intro_nicholson.html (2257 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Essential Rumi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There are poems of love, rage, sadness, pleading, and longing; passionate outbursts about the torture of longing for his beloved and the sweet pleasure that comes from their union; amusing stories of sexual exploits or human weakness; and quiet truths about the beauty and variety of human emotion.
		But as Barks himself points out, Rumi was a Sufi; and Sufis maintain that, far from being the emotional outpourings appearance might suggest, their poems are actually precise and carefully constructed technical instruments designed to have very specific effects on the reader under the right circumstances.
		Rumi uses anything human beings do, no matter how scandalous or cruel or silly, as a lens to examine soul growth." The poem is indeed scandalous, but remember, Rumi was a Sufi teacher, and his students were young men.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0062509594?v=glance (1927 words)

	Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		The general theme of his thoughts, like that of the other mystic and sufi poets of the Persian literature, is essentially about the concept of Tawheed (unity) and union with his beloved (the primal root) from which/whom he has been cut and fallen aloof and his longing and desire for reunity.
		Rumi's major work is "Masnavi-ye Manavi" (Spiritual Couplets), a six-volume poem regarded by many Sufis as second in importance only to the Qur'an.
		Rumi, Jalal al-Din (http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Poets/Rumi.html#Rumi), a biography by Professor Iraj Bashiri, University of Minnesota.
	www.egnu.org /thelemapedia/index.php/Jalal_al-Din_Muhammad_Rumi (561 words)

	Powell's Books - The Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks
		Rumi's poems in their original Persian reflect a dense musicality rarely if ever found in translation.
		Jelaluddin Rumi was born in the year 1207 and until the age of thirty-seven was a brilliant scholar and popular teacher.
		Today, the ecstatic poetry of Jelaluddin Rumi is more popular than ever, and Coleman Barks, through his musical and magical translations, has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to devoted followers.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-078580871x-0 (612 words)

	Salon.com People \| Rumi: No. 1 in Afghanistan and the USA
		Rumi lore is studded with stories marking beginnings and endings and revelations.
		Rumi became a scholar, a poet and a teacher as his father had been.
		Rumi didn't want to throw his books in the fountain, until he learned that the message in them would have to come from within himself.
	archive.salon.com /people/feature/2001/10/12/barks/print.html (1961 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > People > Gabriele Rumi
		Rumi did a deal to have his cars built in England - by Robin Herd's design office Fomet 1 and later by Sergio Rinland's Astauto operation.
		Instead Rumi joined forces with former Ferrari aerodynamicist Jean-Claude Migeot and bought the Casumaro windtunnel, one of the most advanced in the world at the time.
		In 1996 Rumi was one of the consortium which bought Minardi and at the end of 1997 he bought out Flavio Briatore and became the majority shareholder in the team.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/cref-rumgab.html (404 words)

	Rumi poet of the heart, Haydn Reiss, Magnolia Films
		Rumi’s poetry celebrates the sacred in everyday existence and transcends boundaries of time, place, and religion to speak to all people.
		RUMI: POET OF THE HEART looks at why this phenomenon is taking place, who is bringing Rumi’s voice to the west, and presents Rumi’s emergence in a way to reach both the mind and the heart of the viewer.
		Rumi was also founder of the whirling dervishes’; whose trancelike ritual dance has influenced western artists such as Phillip Glass and Maurice Bejart.
	starhawk.com /rumi (639 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Essential Rumi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There are poems of love, rage, sadness, pleading and longing; passionate outbursts about the torture of yearning for his beloved and the sweet pleasure that comes from their union; amusing stories of sexual exploits or human weakness; and quiet truths about the beauty and variety of human emotion.
		Rumi the Persian poet is widely acknowledged as being the greatest Sufi mystic of his age.
		These translations mean I can access the teachings of Rumi and they capture the essence and energy in the work.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140195793 (430 words)

	Rumi - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
		Called 'Jelaluddin Balkhi' by the Persians and Afghans, Rumi was born on September 30, 1207, in Balkh, Afghanistan, then a part of the Persian Empire.
		His father, Bahauddin Walad, was a theologian and a mystic, and after his death Rumi took over the role of sheikh in the dervish learning community in Konya.
		Rumi pursued the life of an orthodox religious scholar until 1244 when he encountered the wandering dervish, Shams of Tabriz.
	www.penguinbooks.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000014272,00.html (311 words)

	Rumi, Jalal ad-Din. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rumi also founded the Mawlawiyya (Mevlevi) Sufi order, who use dancing and music as part of their spiritual method, and who are known in the West as Whirling Dervishes.
		Rumi’s influence spread to Persian-speakers in Afghanistan and central Asia, and beyond, to Turkey and India.
		His tomb in Konya is a place of pilgrimage, and the Mawlawiyya order is still centered in Konya.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ru/Rumi-Jal.html (261 words)

	Salon.com People \| Rumi: No. 1 in Afghanistan and the USA
		This particular genre of life-changing events has a familiar structure; Rumi's own account of his genesis is made up of similar components: protagonist, mentor and one puzzling proclamation that divides life into before and after.
		Rumi was born in 1207 in Balkh, a city in what is now Afghanistan, to a long line of Islamic theologians and poets.
		One day in October 1244, Rumi was sitting by a fountain, reading his father's writings, when he was visited by what Barks calls an "ecstatic soul" -- an Islamic mystic named Shams of Tabriz.
	archive.salon.com /people/feature/2001/10/12/barks (670 words)

	The Christian Science Monitor \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A celebrated past In his day, Rumi was celebrated by Christians, Jews, and Buddhists, as well as by Sufi Muslims who claim him as a part of their tradition.
		Bly says Rumi fills a place in the Christian tradition left vacant when the Gnostics - Christian mystics - were discredited as heretics by early Christian religious leaders.
		Rumi was also a rebel of sorts in his day.
	www.csmonitor.com /durable/1997/11/25/us/us.3.html (1142 words)

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