Necropolis of al-Maturdi
The necropolis of the outstanding medieval Islamic theologian and lawyer imam Abu Mansur al-Maturdi (died in 944) represents a modern structure at Chokardiza cemetery. The cemetery is equated with the Islamic world known cemeteries of Bokiya in Medina and Mualloh in Mecca. Inscriptions on tombstones of the 9th-12th centuries read that many famous Islamic clerics and scientists are buried her. When Muslim army of Sultan Sandjar was smashed by Qara-Khitays in 1141, tens thousand Muslim warriors were buried at Chokardiza as ghazi ("fighters for faith").