Khunj

Khunj lies in southern Fars on the routes joining the inland towns to the Persian Gulf. In the fourteenth century Ibn Battuta stopped at Khunju Pal, the Khunj and Fal district, and visited the tomb of the revered Shaikh Daniyal, over which a ruler of Hormuz had raised a large dome.

He also stayed at a religious lodge whose ascetics followed the Shafi'i school and shared a meal with their visitors. Sufi teachers, pilgrim hospitality and the patronage of the Hormuzi rulers shaped the place, and the roads through Lar carried travellers from this inland district down to the Gulf ports.