| Birth |
|
Date: |
September
29, 1207 A.D. or 6th Rai'u-'l-avval 604 A.H. |
Place: |
Balkh
in the north-eastern provinces of Persia (present day Afghanistan). |
| Name |
Jalal-e-Din
Mohammad |
| Family |
|
| Full Title |
Mevlana
Jalal-e-Din Mohammad Mevlavi Balkhi Rumi |
Father: |
Baha'u-'d-Din
Veled Sultan-'l-Ulema |
Mother: |
Unknown |
| Grandfather: |
Jalale-'d-Din
Huseyn el Khatibi |
| Grandmother: |
Malika'i
Jihan - daughter of Khurram-shah King of Khorasan |
| Brother: |
Ala'u-'d-Din
(2 years older) |
| Sister: |
Not
known - Married and remained in Balkh |
| Wife: |
Gevher
Khatun - daughter of Lala Sharafu-'d-Din of Samarqand. |
| 2nd Wife: |
Unknown |
Children: |
- Son - Killed with
Shams
- Daughter - married a
local prince and left Qonya (Konya)
- Son - Muhammad
Baha'u-'d-Din Sultan Veled
- Son - unknown
|
| Teachers |
|
| Childhood: |
Burhanu-'d-Din
Serr-Daan el Muhaqqiq el Huseyni of Balkh |
| Later in Life: |
Shams-e-Din
Muhammad Ibn Malik-dad Tabrizi |
| Important Events |
| Age 5 |
His
family left his birth-place of Balkh for Baghdad |
| Age 8 |
From
Baghdad to Mecca and Damascus and finally to Malatia (in Western Euphrates in Turkey) |
Age 19
(1226 ad) |
Married
Gevher Khatun
and finally moved to Qonya (Konya) in the north-western provinces of Persia (in present
day Turkey). |
| Age 37 |
On
Saturdday, November 28, 1244 A.D. or 26th of Jamadi-ul0akhar 642 A.H., Rumi and Shams met |
| Age 39 |
On
March 14, 1246, 21st Shewwal, 643, Shams left Qonya and Rumi for the first time. |
| Poetry |
|
| Divan-e-Shams |
A
compendium of poetry in praise of Shams in over 45,000 verses in Farsi (Persian) |
| Mathnavi |
Rumi's
most famous work in 7 books, and 24,660 couplets, in Farsi and some Arabic. This work is
also commonly refered to as the Persian Quoran. |
| Fihi ma Fihi |
Introductory
discourses on metaphysics |
| Death |
|
Date: |
At
sunset of December 16, 1273 A.D. 5th Jamadi-u-'l-Akhar 672 A.H. at the age of 66 solar
years or 68 Lunar years. |
Place: |
At
home in Qonya. |
