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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.

Sources

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• When Sun Meets Moon: Gender, Eros, and Ecstasy in Urdu Poetry, Scott Kugle(professor of South Asian and Islamic studies at Emory University), University of North Carolina Press, page 129,"...the first independent in the Deccan, the Bahmani dynasty, maintained Sunni identity."
• The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, Stephen F. Dale, Cambridge University Press, page 31, "...may have contributed to the decision by a group of Shi'i Muslims from the Deccan, the Bahmani, to proclaim the new Muslim Sultanate there."
• The Shiʿites of the Deccan: An Introduction, Umar Khalidi, "Rivista degli studi orientali", Vol. 64, Fasc. 1/2, SGUARDI SULLA CULTURA A SCIITA NEL DECCAN GLANCES ON SHI'ITE DECCAN CULTURE (1990), p 5, "In the period between 1296-1347, when the Bahmanid sultan founded, Turkish or Indo-Turkish soldiers, adventurers, saints, and scholars migrated from Delhi and North India, and settled in the Deccan. It is not clear, how many of these were Shi'ite. However, there is sufficient documentation to prove that several nobles at the Bahmani court were either Shi'ite had strong Shi'ite proclivities. Though officially most of them were Sunnis, their Sunnism was tinged with the doctrine of tafzlliyya , or the spiritual superiority of 'Ali and the subsequent imams to the first three orthodox caliphs. In 1429 Ahmad Shãh Wall Bahmani (1422-36) was overtly converted to Shi'ism."