Shams Tabrizi

Type Figure Region Persia Time c. 1185–1248 Also known as Shams al-Din

Shams Tabrizi was a 13th-century Persian Sufi wanderer, born c. 1185 in Tabriz, who met Rumi in Konya in 1244 and vanished c.…

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c. 1185–1220Tabriz · AzerbaijanBorn around 1185 in the vicinity of Tabriz, he practiced in Sufi circles of Persia and Anatolia in his youth, renowned for wandering, asceticism, and blunt teaching, without yet leaving systematic writings.
1221–1240Anatolia · AnatoliaAfter the Mongol westward campaigns of the 1220s, Shams wandered Anatolia and Syria, active within the Sultanate of Rum between 1231 and 1240, not yet having met Rumi, teaching through solitary asceticism and debate.
1244–1248Konya · TurkeyHe met Rumi in Konya in 1244; after the two spent several close years together, Shams disappeared—tradition holds he was killed through the suspicion of Rumi's disciples or resumed his wanderings—and his influence drove Rumi into a peak of poetic creation.

Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition: Shams al-Din Tabrizi — A. J. Arberry https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/
Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-i Tabrizi — Shams-i Tabrizi (2004)