Nasaf (Qarshi)

Nasaf (later Qarshi/Karshi), in present-day southern Uzbekistan in the region of Transoxiana, was a town that gave its nisba to a line of Hanafi scholars known as the Nasafis: the creedal author Najm al-Din al-Nasafi (d. 1142), whose Aqida is a standard text of Maturidi theology, and the jurist-exegete Abu al-Barakat (Hafiz al-Din) al-Nasafi (d. 1310), author of Kanz al-Daqa'iq and the Madarik commentary.