"About Mevlana Jalal ad Din Rumi:
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
ANKARA – Turkish Daily News
Muslim Sufi, poet and theologian Celâladin Mehmet Rumi, or Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi -- also known as Mevlana or Rumi -- was born in 1207 in Balkh, now part of Afghanistan, and died in the province of Konya, Turkey, in 1273."
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