Zayn al-Abidin Shirvani (Persian: زینالعابدین شیروانی; 1779/80—1837), was an Iranian scholar, mystic, and traveler, who composed the geography book Bostan al-siaha.
[3][4] At the age of five, Shirvani went to the city of Karbala along with his father Mulla Iskandar, where he studied for twelve years.
When Shirvani returned to Iran in 1814, he attempted to find a home in several places, ultimately settling in city of Shiraz.
[1] Amongst the disciples of Shirvani was Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat (died 1871),[1] a literary historian, administrator, and poet.
[6] Writing in 1813, he says that "from time immemorial" the lands of Iran reached from the Euphrates to the Jayhun (Amu Darya), and from Darband to the coast of Oman.