Rumi (disambiguation)

Rumi (1207–1273) was a Persian poet, Islamic scholar, and Sufi mystic.

Rumi may also refer to:

• Ibn al-Rumi (836–896), an Abbasid-period Arabic poet of Greek origin
• a name for somebody from Rûm ("Rome"), that is one of the following:
  • the Byzantine Empire
  • Greek Christianity
  • Anatolia (Asia Minor), at some time part of the Roman Empire
    • Rumelia - the Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire, named "Land of the Romans"
  • A Muslim from Anatolia, later, the Balkans; in Ottoman times, particularly one who spoke a more or less refined form of Turkish:
    • The Sultanate of Rum - the first Turkish realm in Anatolia, which was founded after the Seljuk victory at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, and became independent from the Great Seljuk Empire in 1077
    • Old Anatolian Turkish or, later, Ottoman Turkish - two closely related languages spoken by Anatolian Turks before modern Turkish, both of which are occasionally called the "Rûmi" language
• Rumi (given name), a Japanese given name
• Rumi (opera), a Persian-language opera by Behzad Abdi
• Rumi calendar, a calendar used by the Ottoman Empire
• Rumi cheese - a hard cheese from cows' milk, or from a mixture of cow and buffalo milk, produced in Egypt
• Rumi Numeral System, used in North Africa and Iberia between the 10th and 17th centuries
• Rumi script, the Malay alphabet
• Cami-i Rumi (fl. 16th century), Ottoman official, poet and translator
• Shah Sultan Rumi, an 11th-century Sufi who migrated to Bengal
• Shafi Imam Rumi, a guerrilla fighter of the Bangladesh Liberation War