Sultan Walad

Baha al-Din Muhammad-i Walad
Baha al-Din Muhammad-i Walad
Title	Sultan Walad
Personal
Religion	Islam
Parents	Rumi (father); Gawhar Khatun (mother);
Era	Islamic Golden Age
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Creed	Maturidi
Main interest(s)	Sufi poetry, Hanafi jurisprudence, Maturidi theology
Tariqa	Mevlevi
Muslim leader
	Influenced by Rumi;
	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 a Sufi, Hanafi Maturidi Islamic scholar and one of the founders of the Mawlawiya (مولویه) order.^[1]

Sultan Walad was the eldest son of Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Persian poet.^[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.

^ 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
^ 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
^ Nicholson, R. A. Selected Poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz. pp. xvii.

[EncyclopediaIslami-1] 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

[2] 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

[3] Nicholson, R. A. Selected Poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz. pp. xvii.

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