Mevlana celaleddin rumi biography shamsie
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Shams Tabrizi
Persian poet (1185–1248)
Shams-i Tabrīzī (Persian: شمس تبریزی) or Shams al-Din Mohammad (1185–1248) was a Persian[1]Shafi'ite[1]poet,[2] who is credited as the spiritual instructor of Mewlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi and is referenced with great reverence in Rumi's poetic collection, in particular Diwan-i Shams-i Tabrīzī. Tradition holds that Shams taught Rumi in seclusion in Konya for a period of forty days, before fleeing for Damascus. The tomb of Shams-i Tabrīzī was recently nominated to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Life
[edit]According to Sipah Salar, a devotee and intimate friend of Rumi who spent forty days with him, Shams was the son of the Imam Ala al-Din. In a work entitled Manāqib al-'arifīn (Eulogies of the Gnostics), Aflaki names a certain 'Ali as the father of Shams-i Tabrīzī and his grandfather as Malikdad. Apparently basing his calculations on Haji Bektash Veli's Maqālāt (C
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Rumi
Sufi scholar and poet (1207–1273)
For other uses, see Rumi (disambiguation).
Mawlānā, Mevlânâ Rumi | |
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Rumi, by Iranian artist Hossein Behzad (1957) | |
| Title | Jalaluddin, jalāl al-Din,[1]Mevlana, Mawlana |
| Born | 30 September 1207 Balkh (present-day Afghanistan)[2] or Wakhsh (present-day Tajikistan),[3][4]Khwarezmian Empire |
| Died | 17 December 1273 (aged 66) Konya (present-day Turkey), Sultanate of Rum |
| Resting place | Tomb of Mevlana Rumi, Mevlana Museum, Konya, Turkey |
| Nationality | Khwarezmian Empire, then Sultanate of Rum |
| Home town | Wakhsh (present-day Tajikistan) or Balkh present-day Afghanistan |
| Spouse | Gevher Khatun, Karra Khatun |
| Children | Sultan Walad, Ulu Arif Chelebi, Amir Alim Chelebi, Malike Khatun. |
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| Era | Islamic Golden Age (7th Islamic century) |
| Main interest(s) | Sufi poetry, Hanafi jurisprudence, Maturidi theology |