Wassaf
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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.[1] 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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- ^ A.K.S. Lamberton, "Mongol Fiscal Administration in Persia" Studia Islamica, no. 64 (1987): p. 80.
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