Wassaf

Wassaf or Vassaf () Abdallah ibn Faḍlallah Sharaf al-Din Shīrāzī ("fl." 1265–1328) 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.
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").
Tarik-i Wassaf.
His history, "Tajziyat al-amṣār wa-tazjiyat al-a'ṣār" ("The allocation of cities and the propulsion of epochs") also called "Tārīkḣ-i Waṣṣāf", was conceived as a continuation of Juwayni's "Tārīkḣ-i Jahāngushāy" whose account of the rise of the Mongol Empire ended in 1257.
"Tārīkḣ-i Waṣṣāf" consisted of an introduction and five volumes. The first volume (first part) only was edited and translated by Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, published 1855.
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.