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{{Short description|14th-century Persian historian}}
{{Infobox historian
| name        = Wassaf
| image       = <!-- Image of Wassaf, if available -->
| caption     =
| birth_name  = Abdallah ibn Faḍlallah Sharaf al-Din Shīrāzī
| birth_date  = 1265
| birth_place = [[Shiraz]], [[Ilkhanate]] (modern-day [[Iran]])
| death_date  = 1328
| death_place =
| nationality = Persian
| occupation  = Historian, Tax Administrator
| notable_works = ''Tārīkḣ-i Waṣṣāf'' (''Tajziyat al-amṣār wa-tazjiyat al-a'ṣār'')
| era         = Ilkhanate
| title       = Waṣṣāf al-Ḥaḍrat (Court Panegyrist)
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[[File:Manuscript of the Tarikh-i-Wassaf, copied in Safavid Persia, 17th century.jpg|thumb|right|Copy of Wassaf's ''Tarikh-i Wassaf'', created in 17th-century [[Safavid Iran]]]]
'''Abdallah ibn Faḍlallah Sharaf al-Din Shīrāzī''' ({{langx|fa|عبدالله ابن فضل‌الله شرف‌الدین شیرازی}}; {{floruit}} 1265–1328), called '''Wassaf''' or '''Vassaf''', was a [[Persian language|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".<ref>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.</ref><ref>{{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 }} {{JSTOR|4299771}}</ref>
A native of [[Shiraz]], Wassaf was a tax administrator in [[Fars Province|Fars]] during the reigns of [[Mahmud Ghazan|Ghazan Mahmud]] and [[Öljaitü]].<ref>[[A.K.S. Lambton]], "Mongol Fiscal Administration in Persia" ''Studia Islamica'', no. 64 (1987): p. 80.</ref> 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'')<ref name=oxf-hist-historical-writing/> also called ''Tārīkḣ-i Waṣṣāf'',{{sfnp|Āyatī|2013|p=149}} was conceived as a continuation of [[Ata al-Mulk Juvayni|Juwayni]]'s ''[[Tarikh-i Jahangushay|Tārīkḣ-i Jahāngushāy]]''{{sfnp|Āyatī|2013|p=150}}<ref name=jackson/> 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}}<ref name=blair-note>{{harvp|Blair|1986}}, p. 148 (note 5 to p. 139).</ref>
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.<ref name=blair-note/>
==References==
;Citations
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<ref name=jackson>{{cite book|last=Jackson |first=Peter |title=The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lt2tqOpVRKgC&pg=PA49 |page=49 |isbn=0521543290}}</ref>
<ref name=oxf-hist-historical-writing>Feldherr, Andrew et al., (2012), {{plain link|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bzmBxU39PGMC&pg=PA269 |name=The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 2: 400-1400}}, p. 269</ref>
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;Bibliography
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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 |author-link= |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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