Abū al-Ḥasan Gulistānah (fl. in the middle and later years of the 12th/18th century), was the son of Muḥammad Amīn, and a historian and senior bureaucrat (dīwān-sālār) around the end of the Afshārid period. He came from the family known as the Gulistānah sayyids (descendants of the Prophet) of Iṣfahān; Kūhmarrahī's assumption (see Gulistānah, 344) that he was one of the Gulistānahs of Kirmānshāh is incorrect (Gulistānah, x; see also Ibn ʿInaba, al-Fuṣūl, 105; Āqā Buzurg, 20/49). He was a descendant of Zayd b. al-Ḥasan al-Mujtabā and was one of the descendants of the…