Wassaf

Who is Wassaf?

Wassaf or Vassaf 'Abdallah ibn Faḍlallah Sharaf al-Din Shīrāzī was a 14th-century Persian historian of the Ilkhanate. Waṣṣāf, sometimes lengthened to Waṣṣāf al-Ḥaḍrat or Vassaf-e Hazrat, is a title meaning "Court Panegyrist".

A native of Shiraz, Wassaf was a tax administrator in Fars during the reigns of Ghazan Mahmud and Öljaitü. 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.