Jalal al-Din Rumi's Masnavi completed by disciples

1273

After the poet's death, his son Sultan Walad and disciples at the Mevlevi lodge in Konya preserved and organized the six books of the Masnavi-i Ma'navi, a vast ocean of allegorical verse, Sufi teaching stories, and ecstatic love poetry. The work would become the Quran of Persian literature, as Jami later declared.