Sultan Walad

Baha al-Din Muhammad-i Walad
بهاءالدین محمد ولد
Sultan Walad preaching in Balkh. Illustration from a manuscupt of the Jami' al-Siyar, created in Baghdad, c.1600
TitleSultan Walad
Personal life
Parents
  • Rumi (father)
  • Gawhar Khatun (mother)
EraIslamic Golden Age
Main interest(s)Sufi poetry, Hanafi jurisprudence, Maturidi theology
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
TariqaMevlevi
CreedMaturidi
Muslim leader
Influenced by
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: بهاءالدین 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.

Sultan Walad was the eldest son of Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Persian poet. 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), so Sultan Walad was born around 1227.