Jalal ad Din Muhaamad Rumi, known as Maulana Rumi was a 13th Century Persian poet, theologian and mystic. He spent much of his life in Konya city in an area of Turkey called Rum (hence the name Rumi).
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01 The Caliph and the bad musician | 02 The scholar and the boatman | 03 Two friends and a cobra | 04 The king, falcon and an old lady | 05 A man, a cow and a lion | 06 The king and two slaves | 07 A falcon and the owls | 08 The doubly blind man | 09 A qazi and impartial judgement | 10 A thief and his footprints | 11 A funeral dirge | 12 Hazrat Luqman and melons | 13 . Four men and grapes | 14 An old man and a doctor | 15 A man and his bear friend | 16 A sower ploughing | 17 An arab and his hungry dog | 18 An old man, his wife and some meat | 19 Foolish people | 20 Chinese Ruman painters
