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Sayfi Harawi, or Sayf b. Muhammad b. Ya'kub, (1282-  ) was a historian and poet during the 14th century in Herat. He was the major primary source for the Kurt dynasty and wrote the Tarikh i Harat, a history of the Kurt dynasty.

Biography
Sayfi was in Herat when it was besieged in 1306 by an Ilkhanate army led by the Danishmand Bodjey, narrowly escaping execution his writings slowed considerably.

Years later, under the favor of the Kartian malik Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad, Sayfi wrote a history of Herat, the Tarikh i Harat. The Tarikh i Harat covers the period from the Mongol conquest of Herat in 1221 to 1322, yet the first half of the chronology should be considered with great caution. Sayfi cites two Arabic sources, within his work, by the writers Abu Ishaq Ahmad b.Yasin and Thiqat al-Din Shaykh 'Abd al-Rahman-i Fami, yet only mentions Thiqat. The Tarikh i Harat also mentions a lost book called the, Kart-nama by Rabi'i-yi Bushandji, while referencing Kurt chancery documents, and even references a story of a Muslim ruler protecting a fire temple.