Abū al-Fatḥ Khān Bakhtiyārī (d. 1164/1751), a chief of the Haft Lang, a branch of the Bakhtiyārī tribe who ruled over Iṣfahān for a while at the end of Afshārid rule. He is reported to have been a descendant of Shaykh Zāhid Gīlānī, the 7th/13th century mystic (Rustam al-Ḥukamāʾ, 48, 65, 225), and his ancestors used to preach to the Bakhtiyārīs (Dunbulī, 1/2). In 1145/1732, when Nādir Shāh Afshār invaded the Bakhtiyārī lands because of a revolt in which the governor of the region had been murdered, …