Maulana jalaluddin muhammad balkhi turkish lira

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī (Persian: جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (Persian: جلال‌الدین محمد رومی), and popularly known as Mowlānā (Persian: مولانا) but known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi^[3] (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian^{[1][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}muslimpoet, jurist, theologian, and Sufimystic.^[11]Rūmī is a descriptive name meaning “the Roman” since he lived most of his life in an area called Rūm because it was once ruled by the Eastern Roman Empire.^[12]

He was likely born in the village of Wakhsh,^[13] a small town located at the river Wakhsh in what is now Tajikistan.

Wakhsh belonged to the larger province of Balkh, and in the year Rumi was born, his father was an appointed scholar there.^[13] Both these cities were at the time included in the greater Persian cultural sphere of Khorasan, the easternmost province of Persi