Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī, Mevlânâ / Mawlānā ('our master'), Mevlevî / Mawlawī ('my master'), (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), a 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran.