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According to the authoritative Rumi biographer Franklin Lewis of the University of Chicago, "he 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 Muslim rulers, it was still known to Arabs, Persians and Turks as the geographical area of Rum.

Balkhī and Rūmī are his nisbas, meaning, respectively, "from Balkh" and "from Rûm" ('Roman,' what European history now calls Byzantine, Anatolia ). Jalal ad-Din is an Arabic name meaning "Glory of the Faith". He is most commonly called Rumi in English.

Translations of his works are very popular, most notably in Turkey, Azerbaijan, the United States, and South Asia. His works are widely read today in their original language across Greater Iran and the Persian-speaking world. His Masnavi ( Mathnawi), composed in Konya, is considered one of the greatest poems of the Persian language. Rumi's works are written mostly in Persian, but occasionally he also used Turkish, Arabic, and Greek in his verse. Rumi has been described as the "most popular poet" and the "best selling poet" in the United States. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into various formats. Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turks, Greeks, Pashtuns, other Central Asian Muslims, and the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries. Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī (Persian: جلال‌الدین محمد رومی‎), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Balkhī ( جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى), Mevlânâ/ Mowlānā ( مولانا, "our master"), Mevlevî/ Mawlawī ( مولوی, "my master"), and more popularly simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran.

Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Jami, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Abdolhossein Zarrinkoob, Abdolkarim Soroush, Hossein Elahi Ghomshei, Muhammad Iqbal, Hossein Nasr Yunus Emre.