Sangtuda ( Russian : Сангтуда ; Tajik : Сангтӯда , Persian : سنگتوده ) is a village and jamoat in Tajikistan . It is located in Danghara District in Khatlon Region . The jamoat has a total population of 12,686 (2015).
3-787: Located on the East bank of the Wakhsh River , a major tributary of the Amu Darya (or Oxus River ), the place was known as Wakhsh in the Medieval period . Sangtuda was the birthplace of the Persian poet Jalal al-Din Rumi , whose father, Muhammad ibn Husayn Khatibi, better known as Baha al-Din Walad, lived and worked in the town, then known as Wakhsh, as a jurist and preacher until 1212, when Rumi
6-543: A center of Muslim culture in (Greater) Khorasan (Iran and Central Asia). Rather, as Meier has shown, it was in the small town of Wakhsh north of the Oxus that Baha'uddin Walad, Jalaluddin's father, lived and worked as a jurist and preacher with mystical inclinations. Franklin Lewis, Rumi : Past and Present, East and West: The Life, Teachings, and Poetry of Jalâl al-Din Rumi , 2000, pp. 47–49. This Tajikistan location article
9-511: Was around five and the family moved to Samarkand . The town of Sangtuda is identified as the medieval town of Wakhsh or Lêwkand by Franklin Lewis . Tajiks and Persian admirers still prefer to call Jalaluddin 'Balkhi' because his family lived in Balkh, current day in Afghanistan before migrating westward. However, their home was not in the actual city of Balkh, since the mid-eighth century
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