Similarly , many Memons who came from Sindh were also welcomed in Surat. Traders and religious scholars from Turkey, Central Asia and Middle East also settled in Surat and many muslim Surtis and Variavwala trace their ancestry to these immigrants though many Muslims may also just be descendants of sons of soil whose family may have converted to Islam from Hinduism. These Muslim families can be traced in Variav from the 12th century at least with influence of Turkey and Central Asia and many families of Variav have undertaken the tradition of having a Hafiz ul Quran in their family