Abdallah ibn Faḍlallah Sharaf al-Din Shīrāzī (Persian:عبدالله ابن فضلالله شرفالدین شیرازی;fl. 1265–1328), calledWassaf orVassaf, was aPersian historian of theIlkhanate.Waṣṣāf, sometimes lengthened toWaṣṣāf al-Ḥaḍrat orVassaf-e Hazrat (Persian:وصّافِ حضرت), is a title meaning "court panegyrist".[1][2]
A native ofShiraz, Wassaf was a tax administrator inFars during the reigns ofGhazan Mahmud andÖljaitü.[3] He is the author of the historical workTārīkḣ-i Waṣṣāf, also known asTajziyat al-amṣār wa-tazjiyat al-a'ṣār (The allocation of cities and the propulsion of epochs).
His history,Tajziyat al-amṣār wa-tazjiyat al-a'ṣār (The allocation of cities and the propulsion of epochs)[4] also calledTārīkḣ-i Waṣṣāf,[5] was conceived as a continuation ofJuwayni'sTārīkḣ-i Jahāngushāy[6][7] whose account of the rise of theMongol Empire ended in 1257.
Tārīkḣ-i Waṣṣāf consisted of an introduction and five volumes.[6] The first volume (first part) only was edited and translated byJoseph von Hammer-Purgstall, published 1855.[6][8]
Wassaf's florid style of prose is not easily followed by modern readers, and an abridged version entitled theTaḥrīr-i Tārīkḣ-i Waṣṣāf (1346/1967) has been edited by ʿAbd al-Muḥammad Āyatī.[8]
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