![]() ![]() Before meeting Rumi, he apparently traveled from place to place weaving baskets and selling girdles for a living. However, various scholars have questioned Aflaki’s reliability.Shams received his education in and was a disciple of Baba Kamal al-Din Jumdi. Apparently basing his calculations on 's Maqālāt ( Conversations), Aflaki suggests that Shams arrived in Konya at the age of sixty years. In a work entitled Manāqib al-‘arifīn ( Eulogies of the Gnostics), Aflaki names a certain ‘Ali as the father of Shams-i Tabrīzī and his grandfather as Malikdad. Bowl of Reflections, early 13th century.According to, a devotee and intimate friend of Rumi who spent forty days with him, Shams was the son of the Imam Ala al-Din.
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