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
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