Abū l-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad Amīn Gulistāna was a government official in Kirmānshāhān (southeastern Kurdistan) who wrote an important chronicle of Iranian history after Nādir Shāh (r. 1147–60/1736–47). He came from a family of Ḥasanī sayyids (claiming descent from the Prophet) from Isfahan. In the post-Ṣafavid era, many of his relatives became government officials in various parts of Iran. One uncle, Mīrzā Muḥammad Taqī, held several positions of fiscal responsibility under Nādir and his successors in Kirmānshāhān and Persian Iraq, u…