He is the author of the following poetic works: Divan-e Kabir (“Great Collected Poetic Works”) or Divan-e Shams-i Tabrizi (which contains, in the earliest manuscripts, more than 3,000 ghazaliyāt or lyric poems, 40 tariqat or stanzaic poems, and over 1800 rubāc īyāt or quatrains) and Mathnawi-ye Manawi (“Couplets of Deep Spiritual Meaning”), considered his greatest work that was composed in his later years, which contains over 25,000 authentic verses). Mawlana has long been viewed as one of the greatest Persian poets and has been called “surely the greatest mystical poet in the history of mankind” (Arberry, 1949, p.
Jalaluddin Rumi (KS) is also one of the great grandfathers of Maulana Sheikh Nazim al-Haqqani ar-Rabbani (KS), Sultan al-Awliya of Naqshandi Golden chain order. He was known as Rumi (“Roman”) because he spent most of his life in the region known by Muslims as “Rum,” the Anatolian peninsula most of which had been conquered by the Saljuq Turks after centuries of rule by the Eastern (Byzantine) Roman Empire. In addition, his disciples called him by the Persian title, Khodāwandgar (“great Master”). He was also called by the Arabic title, Mawlana (“our Master”), as was his father. From an early age, his father called him Jalāl al-Dīn (“The glory of the Religion”).
His birth name was the same as his father’s: Muḥammad (SWS).
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