9 moments

1. Birth at Wakhsh

   1207-09-30 · Wakhsh (near present-day Sangtuda), Tajikistan

   

   Rumi was born at Wakhsh, a settlement on the east bank of the Wakhsh River in present-day Tajikistan. The historical Wakhsh named in the source is identified there with the area now known as Sangtuda; coordinates are a representative point for that locality.

2. Family relocation to Samarkand

   1212-01-01 · Samarkand, Uzbekistan

   

   As a child, Rumi moved with his family from Wakhsh to Samarkand after his father’s work there ended. The quotation identifies a family move; Rumi was approximately five years old.

3. Marriage at Karaman

   1225-01-01 · Karaman, Turkey

   

   During the family’s seven-year residence at Karaman, Rumi married Gowhar Khatun.

4. Studies in Aleppo

   1233-01-01 · Aleppo, Syria

   

   Rumi moved to Aleppo for advanced study, part of the educational journey that also took him to Damascus. The source dates the move to 630 AH / 1233 CE but does not provide a more precise date.

5. Studies in Damascus

   1233-01-01 · Damascus, Syria

   

   After Aleppo, Rumi continued his studies in Damascus, where he remained for several years according to this scholarly account. The source places the move to Damascus after the 1233 move to Aleppo; the exact year of arrival in Damascus is not independently specified.

6. Leadership of his father’s circle

   1241-01-01 · Konya, Turkey

   

   By the death of Burhan al-Din Muhaqqiq, Rumi had assumed leadership of his father’s classes and disciples in Konya.

7. Meeting Shams-e Tabrizi

   1244-01-01 · Konya, Turkey

   

   In Konya, Rumi’s encounter with the itinerant mystic Shams-e Tabrizi marked a major turning point in his intellectual and spiritual life. The year and city are supported; accounts differ on the precise day of Rumi’s first meeting with Shams.

8. Search for Shams in Damascus

   1248-01-01 · Damascus, Syria

   

   After Shams-e Tabrizi’s disappearance, Rumi travelled again to Damascus while searching for him. The journey followed Shams’s disappearance on 5 December 1248 in the article’s chronology; the source does not supply an independent exact date for Rumi’s arrival in Damascus.

9. Death in Konya

   1273-12-17 · Konya, Turkey

   

   Rumi died in Konya after an illness in December 1273. His burial beside his father became the nucleus of the later Mevlana shrine complex.