Harawi (surname)

Harawi (from Arabic Harawī; Classical Persian: Harawī) or Heravi (Iranian Persian pronunciation) is an Arabic locational surname, or nisba, denoting origin from Herat (Arabic: Harāh; Classical Persian: Harāt), a city in modern-day Afghanistan.

Notable people with the surname include:

Harawi

• Abu'l-Fadl Harawi, 10th-century Persian astronomer
• Abu Dharr al-Harawi (946–1042), 10th-century Islamic scholar
• Ali ibn Abi Bakr al-Harawi (died 1215), 12th and 13th century Persian traveller and poet
• Asafi Harawi (1449–1517), 15th and 16th century Persian poet
• Mir Zahid Harawi (died 1689), 17th-century Islamic scholar
• Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Harawi ( and died 1542), late 15th-century Persian physician from Herat
• Muwaffaq ibn Ali al-Harawi, 10th-century Persian physician
• Nimat Allah al-Harawi (), chronicler and historian at the court of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir
• Nizam al-Din Alisher Harawi (1441–1501), Turkic poet and politician
• Qasim Madih Harawi, author of the Jahangirnama (Qasim Madih Harawi)

Heravi

• Abd al-Rafe Heravi, 12th-century Persian poet
• Bibi Heravi (997–1084), Persian poet
• Husseini Heravi (1245–1318), Persian author and poet
• Majid Momhed-Heravi (born 1952), Iranian chemist
• Mehri Heravi, 15th-century Persian poet
• Mir Ali Heravi, 16th-century Persian calligrapher and calligraphy teacher
• Mostafa Heravi (born 1974), Iranian filmmaker, photographer and visual artist

See also