![]() ![]() When his age was about 18 years, to avoid the Mongol invasions, the family moved westward through Iran, Iraq, and Syria, meeting famous writers and mystics, such as the revered poet Attar, who authored the finest spiritual parable in the Persian language, "The Concourse of the Birds." The family's flight ended in 1226 in the Anatolian city of Qonya-capital of the Seljuk Turkish sultanate of Rum, from which the poet's name derives. Under his patronage, Rumi received his early education from Syed Burhan-al-Din. His father Baha al-Din was a renowned religious scholar. Jalal-e-Din Mohammad Molavi Rumi was born in 1207 CE at Balkh in the north-eastern provinces of Persia (present day Afghanistan), to a Persian-speaking family.
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