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{{Short description|14th-century Persian historian}}
[[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|url-access=subscription}} {{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/>

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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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* {{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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