Wassaf

Wassaf

Wassaf ("fl." 1299-1323) was a 14th century Persian historian of the Ilkhanate. "Waṣṣāf", sometimes lengthened to "Waṣṣāf-i-Ḥaḍrat", is a title meaning "Court Panagyrist"; his given name was 'Abd Allah ibn Faḍl Allah Shīrāzī.

A native of Shiraz, Wassaf was a tax administrator in Fars during the reigns of Ghazan Mahmud and Öljaitü. [A.K.S. Lamberton, "Mongol Fiscal Administration in Persia" "Studia Islamica", no. 64 (1987): p. 80.] His history, entitled "Tajziyat al-amṣār wa-tazjiyat al-a'ṣār" or "The allocation of cities and the propulsion of epochs", was conceived as a continuation of Juwayni, whose account of the rise of the Mongol Empire ended in 1257.

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