Mevlevi

After Rumi's death in 1273, his son Sultan Walad and Husameddin Chelebi established the Mevlevi order and built his mausoleum at Konya. Sultan Walad, who died in 1312, made the shrine a center for the order.

Ottoman patronage helped the Mevlevis spread beyond Anatolia into the Balkans and Arab lands. In 1590 Sultan Murad III commissioned a Turkish translation of a fourteenth-century biography of Rumi, preserving his story for Ottoman readers.