Hariri Family History

Muslim: occupational name for a silk merchant, from Arabic ?hariri ‘related to or associated with silk’. Harir is also the name of an ancient region on the right bank of the Euphrates River in Syria. The Arabic scholar and writer Abu Mu?hammad al-Qasim ibn ?Ali al-?Hariri (1054–1152) was born, lived, and died in the city of Basra, in southern Iraq.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press