Abd al-Hoseyn Khatunabadi ( fa, عبدالحسین خاتون آبادی; 23 March 1630 – March 1694) was a 17th-century

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historian of

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, who is principally known for his historical chronicle of ''Vaqa'e' al-senin'', referred to as the "most important source from the last decades of Safavid rule." Khatunabadi belonged to a prominent family of

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origin, which traced their ancestry back to the Shi'i

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Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin (died 713). Although the family lived in

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, they originally belonged to

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, where they occupied the office of '' naqib'' (head of the sayyid families) in a hereditary fashion. It was Khatunabadi's paternal great-grandfather, Mir Emad al-Din Mohammad (also known as Shahmorad), who had moved to Isfahan in the 16th century, settling in a small village nearby, named

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. Khatunabadi received his education in Isfahan, mostly under his father. He later observed the lectures of the ''pishnamaz'' ( prayer imam) of Isfahan, Molla Reza-qoli (died 1661/62) at the

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. Khatunabadi completed his ''Vaqa'e' al-senin'' in 1687/88, which he arranged into three segments.

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