Original sentence: He lived most of his life in, and produced his works under, the Seljuk Empire.His birthplace and native language/local dialogue indicates a Persian (Iranian) heritage.His poetry is in Persian and his works are widely read in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and in translation especially in Turkey, Azerbaijan, the US, and South Asia.Rumi was born in Balkh (in present-day Afghanistan, then a city of Greater Khorasan in Persia) and died in Konya (in present-day Turkey)
Edited sentence: He chose to live most of his life in, and produced all of his works under the Turkish rule, then the Seljuk Empire.His birthplace and literary dialogue indicates a Persian (Iranian) heritage.. However, his local dialogue was entirely in Turkish.His poetry is usually in Persian, as Persian was the popular sufi literature language of its time, and his works are widely read in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and in translation especially in Turkey, Azerbaijan, the US, and South Asia.Rumi was born in Balkh (in present-day Afghanistan, then a city of Greater Khorasan in Persia) and died in Konya (in Turkey), where he spent most of his life and wrote all of his works in.The family lineage of Rumî is still active and on-going, leading the only authentic Mevlevi order of the world, in Turkey.Today, secular Republic of Turkey embraces Rumî and his heritage as her own respectively