Topic summary
Rûm
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Rum (name).
Inscriptions
Rûm is found in the pre-Islamic Namara inscription and later in the Quran (7th century) in which it is used to refer to the contemporary Eastern Roman Empire under its Greek-speaking emperors (the Heraclian dynasty). The empire was the most prominent Christian state during the period of Muhammad's life and during the composition of the Quran, the Western Roman Empire having fallen two centuries earlier, during the 5th century.