Abdallah ibn Faḍlallah Sharaf al-Din Shīrāzī (; 1265–1328), called Wassaf or Vassaf, was a Persian historian of the

Ilkhanate The Ilkhanate or Il-khanate was a Mongol khanate founded in the southwestern territories of the Mongol Empire. It was ruled by the Il-Khans or Ilkhanids (), and known to the Mongols as ''Hülegü Ulus'' (). The Ilkhanid realm was officially known ...

. ''Waṣṣāf'', sometimes lengthened to ''Waṣṣāf al-Ḥaḍrat'' or ''Vassaf-e Hazrat'' (), is a title meaning "court panegyrist". A native of

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, Wassaf was a tax administrator in Fars during the reigns of Ghazan Mahmud and Öljaitü. A.K.S. Lambton, "Mongol Fiscal Administration in Persia" ''Studia Islamica'', no. 64 (1987): p. 80. He is the author of the historical work ''Tārīkḣ-i Waṣṣāf'', also known as ''Tajziyat al-amṣār wa-tazjiyat al-a'ṣār'' (''The allocation of cities and the propulsion of epochs'').

Tarikh-i Wassaf

His history, ''Tajziyat al-amṣār wa-tazjiyat al-a'ṣār'' (''The allocation of cities and the propulsion of epochs'') also called ''Tārīkḣ-i Waṣṣāf'', was conceived as a continuation of Juwayni's '' Tārīkḣ-i Jahāngushāy'' whose account of the rise of the

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ended in 1257. ''Tārīkḣ-i Waṣṣāf'' consisted of an introduction and five volumes. The first volume (first part) only was edited and translated by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, published 1855., p. 148 (note 5 to p. 139). Wassaf's florid style of prose is not easily followed by modern readers, and an abridged version entitled the ''Taḥrīr-i Tārīkḣ-i Waṣṣāf'' (1346/1967) has been edited by ʿAbd al-Muḥammad Āyatī.

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