Atlas
About this atlas
The atlas holds the chains of transmission from the Prophet as the standard references and the classical sources record them: the Sufi orders, the chains of Qurʾān recitation, the teachers of the schools of law and ḥadīth, and the lines of the Prophet's family, with the places they spread and the living houses and teachers who carry them today. Every link shows its sources; where they differ, both readings are shown, and we do not rule on any community's claims. Ibn ʿArabī's own life, teachers and readers are on their own page.
شمس الدين التبريزي
Shams-i Tabrīzī
Died disappeared 645/1247 (approximate) · born c. 582/1186 (Ahmed Dede: 590/1194) · Tabriz, Konya
Rūmī's companion from 642/1244
Sources for this person
The chain up to the Prophet
No chain up to the Prophet is recorded for this person in the sources read.
How to read the marks
- Two sources: a solid rule. Two independent references give the same link.
- One source: a lighter rule, so labelled.
- The community's own account: a dotted rule. The order tells it; we have not yet read it against a reference source.
- A gap in the rule: the sources omit names between the two. The label says which.
- The sources differ: tap the ≠ to read each reading with its source.
- A ring: a spiritual link, without a meeting (uwaysī).
Who received from Shams-i Tabrīzī
1 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Mawlānā)جلال الدين الرومي1273
two sourcesin Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî)
companionship (ṣuḥba) · Shams-i Tabrīzī to Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Mawlānā) · Two independent sources
Met Rūmī in Konya on 26 Jumādā II 642 (29 Nov 1244) per Aflākī; Rūmī gave up teaching to be with him.
TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, ŞEMS-i TEBRÎZÎTDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, MEVLÂNÂ CELÂLEDDİN-i RÛMÎChecked against
- Trimingham, Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L3830-3835 · agreesRūmī's fifteen-month association with Shams al-Dīn Tabrīzī, 1244.
- Jāmī, Nafaḥāt al-uns (the edition in this reader), pp. 535-539 · agreesMeeting in Konya, 642.
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Shams-i Tabrīzī”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/shams-tabrizi (data of 31 October 2026).