A Comparative Study of Rumi's and Maslow's Theories on the Healthy and Complete Human Being

This is a research work comparing the thought of the thirteenth-century Persian poet Rumi, from Balkh, with that of the twentieth-century American psychologist Abraham Maslow. Despite the vast difference in their times, places, and intellectual traditions, the study finds notable parallels between them. Rumi, throughout his Masnavi-ye Manavi, pursues the ideal of the perfect human being, while Maslow develops related ideas through his psychological framework. The research examines where these two thinkers converge and diverge in their conceptions of human potential and self-realization.