Sultan Walad

Baha al-Din Muhammad-i Walad
TitleSultan Walad
Personal
ReligionIslam
Parents
  • Rumi (father)
  • Gawhar Khatun (mother)
EraIslamic Golden Age
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
CreedMaturidi
Main interest(s)Sufi poetry, Hanafi jurisprudence, Maturidi theology
TariqaMevlevi
Muslim leader
Influenced by
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)Muḥammad
محمد
Patronymic (Nasab)ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad
بن محمد بن محمد بن الحسين بن أحمد
Epithet (Laqab)Bahā ad-Dīn
بهاء الدين
Toponymic (Nisba)ar-Rūmī
الرومي
al-Khaṭībī
الخطيبي
al-Balkhī
البلخي
al-Bakrī
البكري

Baha al-Din Muhammad-i Walad (Persian: بها الدین محمد ولد), more popularly known as Sultan Walad (سلطان ولد), was the eldest son of Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Persian poet,[1] Sufi, Hanafi Maturidi Islamic scholar and one of the founders of the Mawlawiya (مولویه) order.[2]

Sultan Walad's mother was Jowhar Khatun, daughter of the Lala Sharaf-ud-Din of Samarkand. The marriage took place in 623 AH (about 1226 AD),[3] so Sultan Walad was born around 1227.

  1. ^ Franklin D. Lewis, Rumi: Past and Present, East and West: The Life, Teaching, and Poetry of Jalâl al-Din Rumi, rev. ed. (2008). pg 240: "Sultan Valad does not always display technical control of the meter of his verse, but he is a generally competent Persian poet
  2. ^ Schubert, Gudrun. "Sulṭān Walad , Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad-i Walad." Encyclopaedia of Islam. Edited by: P. Bearman , Th. Bianquis , C.E. Bosworth , E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs. Brill, 2007
  3. ^ Nicholson, R. A. Selected Poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz. pp. xvii.

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