Wassaf
Abdallah ibn Faḍlallah Sharaf al-Din Shīrāzī (Template:Langx; fl. 1265–1328), called Wassaf or Vassaf, was a Persian historian of the Ilkhanate. Waṣṣāf, sometimes lengthened to Waṣṣāf al-Ḥaḍrat or Vassaf-e Hazrat (Template:Langx), is a title meaning "court panegyrist".[1][2]
A native of Shiraz, Wassaf was a tax administrator in Fars during the reigns of Ghazan Mahmud and Öljaitü.[3] 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)[4] also called Tārīkḣ-i Waṣṣāf,Template:Sfnp was conceived as a continuation of Juwayni's Tārīkḣ-i JahāngushāyTemplate:Sfnp[5] whose account of the rise of the Mongol Empire ended in 1257.
Tārīkḣ-i Waṣṣāf consisted of an introduction and five volumes.Template:Sfnp The first volume (first part) only was edited and translated by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, published 1855.Template:Sfnp[6]
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.[6]
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- ↑ Huart, Cl., "Waṣṣāf", in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, First Edition (1913-1936), Edited by M. Th. Houtsma, T.W. Arnold, R. Basset, R. Hartmann.
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- ↑ A.K.S. Lambton, "Mongol Fiscal Administration in Persia" Studia Islamica, no. 64 (1987): p. 80.
- ↑ Feldherr, Andrew et al., (2012), The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 2: 400-1400, p. 269
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