Trivial Pursuit 77

"az kufr-o ze-islâm berûn, SaHrâyê-st
mâ-râ ba-meyân-é ân faZâ, sawdâyê-st
`ârif chô ba-d-ân rasîd sar-râ be-neh-ad
nay kufr-o na islâm, na ân-jâ jâyê-st"



This is the original Quatrain no. 395, a poem by the Persian and Sufi poet Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Balkhi.






The world knows this person by a descriptive name, which he got because he lived most of his life in an area once ruled by the Eastern Roman Empire.








A Hindi translation of this poem, called "The Meeting Place", features in the soundtrack of Imtiaz Ali's "Rockstar", which has Music by A.R. Rahman.


Identify the poet.