1. Shams-i Tabrizi or Shams al-Din Mohammad was a Persian Shafi'ite poet, who is credited as the spiritual instructor of Mewlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi, known as Rumi and is referenced with great reverence in Rumi's poetic collection, in particular Diwan-i Shams-i Tabrizi.
Tradition holds that Shams taught Rumi in seclusion in Konya for a period of forty days, before fleeing for Damascus.
The tomb of Shams-i Tabrizi was recently nominated to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Apparently basing his calculations on Haji Bektash Veli's Maqalat, Aflaki suggests that Shams Tabrizi arrived in Konya at the age of sixty years.
Shams Tabrizi received his education in Tabriz and was a disciple of Baba Kamal al-Din Jumdi.
Shams Tabrizi caught hold of the reins of his donkey and rudely challenged the master with two questions.
Shams Tabrizi lost himself completely and was filled with God.
Shams Tabrizi's desire was endless, and he was always thirsty.
Shams Tabrizi cried out, fell to the ground, and lost consciousness for one hour.
Shams Tabrizi, upon hearing these answers, realized that he was face to face with the object of his longing, the one he had prayed God to send him.
In Rumi's poetry Shams Tabrizi becomes a guide of Allah's love for mankind; Shams Tabrizi was a sun shining the Light of Sun as guide for the right path dispelling darkness in Rumi's heart, mind, and body on earth.
Sultan Walad, Rumi's son, in his Walad-Nama mathnawi just mentions that Shams Tabrizi mysteriously disappeared from Konya with no more specific details.
The Maqalat-e Shams-e Tabrizi is a Persian prose book written by Shams.
However she acknowledges that, despite the large number of poems attributed to Shams Tabrizi, that comprise the devotional repertoire of the Ismailis of Badakhshan, an overwhelming majority of these cannot be located in any of the existing works of Rumi.
Rather, as Virani observes, some of these are located in the "Rose Garden of Shams Tabrizi", authored by Mulukshah, a descendant of the Ismaili Pir Shams Tabrizi, as well as in other works.