Birth

Date September 29, 1207 A.D. · 6th Rabi'u-l-avval 604 A.H.
Place Balkh, north-eastern Persia (present day Afghanistan)
Given name Jalal-e-Din Mohammad
Full title Mevlana Jalal-e-Din Mohammad Mevlavi Balkhi Rumi

Family

Father Baha'u-d-Din Veled Sultan-l-Ulema
Mother Unknown
Grandfather Jalal-e-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 Konya', "Son — Muhammad Baha'u-d-Din Sultan Veled", 'Son — unknown']

Teachers

In childhood Burhanu-d-Din Serr-Daan el Muhaqqiq el Huseyni of Balkh
Later in life Shams-e-Din Muhammad Ibn Malik-dad Tabrizi

Life events

Age 5 Family left Balkh for Baghdad
Age 8 From Baghdad to Mecca and Damascus, and finally to Malatia (western Euphrates, Turkey)
Age 19 · 1226 A.D. Married Gevher Khatun and finally moved to Konya (Qonya) in the north-western provinces of Persia (present day Turkey)
Age 37 Saturday, November 28, 1244 A.D. · 26th of Jamadi-ul-akhar 642 A.H. — Rumi and Shams met
Age 39 March 14, 1246 · 21st Shewwal 643 A.H. — Shams left Konya and Rumi for the first time

Major works

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. Also commonly referred to as the Persian Quran.
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.
Age 66 solar years · 68 lunar years
Place At home in Konya

Sources

Divan-e Shams in Farsi, compiled by Taghi Jafary

Mathnavi in Farsi, compiled by Ghadam-Ali Sarami

Menaqibu'L'Arefin — by the historian Shams-e-Din Ahmed El Eflaki, 1353, translated by James W. Redhouse