Khaf

Khaf was a district of southern Khorasan on the road between Herat and Nishapur, with settlements at Salameh, Khargerd and Zuzan. In the 14th century it belonged to the Kartids of Herat.

Timur absorbed the Kartid realm in 1381. Under his successor Shah Rukh, the vizier Sheikh Ahmad Khafi founded the Ghiyathiyya madrasa at Khargerd in 1444. The poet Hatefi was born there in 1454, during the Timurid period.