Wassaf
{{Short description|14th-century Persian historian}}
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Abdallah ibn Faḍlallah Sharaf al-Din Shīrāzī ({{langx|fa|عبدالله ابن فضلالله شرفالدین شیرازی}}; {{floruit}} 1265–1328), called Wassaf or Vassaf, was a Persian historian of the Ilkhanate. Waṣṣāf, sometimes lengthened to Waṣṣāf al-Ḥaḍrat or Vassaf-e Hazrat ({{langx|fa|وصّافِ حضرت}}), is a title meaning "court panegyrist".Huart, Cl., "[https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-1/wassaf-SIM_5970?s.num=54&s.start=40 Waṣṣāf]", in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, First Edition (1913-1936), Edited by M. Th. Houtsma, T.W. Arnold, R. Basset, R. Hartmann.{{cite journal|last=Blair|first=Sheila S.|title=The Mongol Capital of Sulṭāniyya, "The Imperial"|journal=Iran|volume=24|year=1986|pages=139–151|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k0kuAQAAIAAJ&q=Tarik+Wassaf|doi=10.2307/4299771|jstor=4299771|url-access=subscription}} {{JSTOR|4299771}}
A native of Shiraz, 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,{{sfnp|Āyatī|2013|p=149}} was conceived as a continuation of Juwayni's Tārīkḣ-i Jahāngushāy{{sfnp|Āyatī|2013|p=150}} whose account of the rise of the Mongol Empire ended in 1257.
Tārīkḣ-i Waṣṣāf consisted of an introduction and five volumes.{{sfnp|Āyatī|2013|p=150}} The first volume (first part) only was edited and translated by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, published 1855.{{sfnp|Āyatī|2013|p=150}}{{harvp|Blair|1986}}, 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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- {{citation|last=Āyatī|first=ʿAbd al-Muḥammad|title=30. Tārīkḣ-i Waṣṣāf|encyclopedia=Historical Sources of the Islamic World: Selected Entries from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam|publisher=EWI Press|year=2013|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vo9WYzuev5oC&pg=PA149|pages=149–152|isbn=9781908433114}}
- {{cite journal|last=Jackson|first=Peter|year=2009|title=Mongol Khans and Religious Allegiance: The Problems Confronting a Minister-Historian in Ilkhanid Iran|journal=Iran|volume=47|pages=109–129|doi=10.1080/05786967.2009.11864762|jstor=25651467|s2cid=163667392}} {{Registration required}}
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