Rumi

Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi was a thirteenth-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar and Sufi mystic, born in Wakhsh and settled for most of his life in Konya, in what is now Turkey. He left two vast bodies of verse — the six-book Masnavi and the Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi, together tens of thousands of lines — plus the prose Fihi Ma Fihi, seven sermons and a collection of letters, all of which survive and are edited. That completeness is exactly why an unlocatable ‘Rumi quote’ counts against itself: there is a corpus to check, and it is checkable. He is nonetheless the most heavily counterfeited author on the English-speaking internet, largely because the best-known English Rumi consists of loose re-renderings made by writers who do not read Persian.