Bahāʾ al-Dīn Walad (Sulṭān Walad), whose full name was Muḥammad b. Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad (623–712/1226–1312), was the elder son and second successor of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī or Balkhī. According to some sources his first name was Aḥmad; but since Aḥmad Aflākī (see 2/785) states that Jalāl al-Dīn named him after his own father, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Walad (q.v.), it seems more probable that his name was Muḥammad.

Sulṭān Walad was born at Lāranda (modern Karaman), a town some 100 km. south of Konya, which was then one of the seats of governmen…