[lbo-talk] Wondering the Silk Road, was Muslims and Vodka...

[sharif islam]

On 3/16/07, Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote:
>
> I went searching for some background on Al-Din (a mixed CD that Joanna
> did). It is evidently a common part of a name and the closest I could
> come to a likely suspect was Fakhr al-Din-Razi. He shares the name
> with the Persian poet, Jalal al-Din Rumi. So it is highly confusing to
> sort these people out.

It is  Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmi. I don't know arabic, so not sure if there is any
significant difference between ad-Din and al-Din.

--sharif

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