He was the eldest son of Maulana
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī 1207-1273, born on 25 Rabīʿ II 623 [1226 CE] in the city of Larende (Karaman, Turkey). He studied
in Aleppo (Syria) and Damascus (Syria) and apparently was
very close to his father. He was close to the Mawlavī circles from an early age
and interacted with the friends of his father, especially Shams-i Tabrīzī, -1247, who
according to Shams al-Dīn Aflākī, d.
1360 and Farīdūn ibn Aḥmad
Sipahsālār was sent by
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī to bring Tabrizi back to Anatolia from Damascus (Syria). He also is the copyist of the
eldest surviving manuscript of Tabrīzī’s
work Maqālāt. He had two daughters and a son called Aref Çelebi,1272-1320, who became his successor after
his death. He has a prolific literary and religious life, composing prose and
versed works on Sufism and actively attracting influential people to the
proto-Sufi order that began to take shape during his time as leader of his
father’s followers. Four poetic and one prose work in Persian are known, some
contain some early Turkish verses, Arabic and a few Greek lines. He died in 712 AH [1312-1313 CE].
The title of the work is not given in this manuscript but only mentioned as a
work by Sulṭān Valad, 1226-1312, whose
only prose work known is the Maʻarif
Composed in 700 in the same metric than the Mas̲navī of Maulana
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, 1207-1273, it contains 8124 verses in Persian,
Arabic and Turkish. The work is especially interesting for the information it
provides on the relationship between Jalāl
al-Dīn Rūmī and Shams-i Tabrīzī,
-1247. It also includes general Sufi notions.
