Jalal al-Din Rumi dies at Konya; his Masnavi, a Persian Sufi poem of some twenty-six thousand verses, becomes the most read book of Sufism, and the Mevlevi order formed by his disciples carries his path across the Turkish world.
Tagged: Muslim Sufi Orders
The Event
- Date
- 1273 (exact)
- Era
- Later Empires; Standard periodization of Islamic history
- Location
- Konya; today Konya, Türkiye
- Traditions
- Islam
- Streams
- Sufi Orders
- Key figures
- Rumi, Shams-i Tabrizi
- Key texts
- Masnavi
Primary Sources
- Masnavi
Secondary Sources
- Esposito, Islam: The Straight Path (Oxford, 4th ed. 2011)
Provenance: HIST-0240; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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