Rumi was born in the present-day Balkh province in Afghanistan .
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī ( ) , also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī ( ) , Mawlānā ( , `` our master '' ) , Mevlânâ , Mevlevî ( Mawlawī , `` my master '' ) , and more popularly simply as Rūmī ( 1207 – 17 December 1273 ) , was a 13th-century PersianRitter , H. ; Bausani , A . `` ḎJ̲alāl al-Dīn Rūmī b. Bahāʾ al-Dīn Sulṭān al-ʿulamāʾ Walad b. Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad Ḵh̲aṭībī . ''
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