Kerman (Kirman)

Kerman (Kirman), the chief city of the Kirman region of southeastern Iran, was a provincial capital throughout the Islamic period. The Hanafi jurist-exegete Abu al-Barakat (Hafiz al-Din) al-Nasafi (d. 1310), author of Kanz al-Daqa'iq, taught at the Qutbiyya Sultaniyya madrasa in Kirman.