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Wassaf

14th-century Persian historian

Abdallah ibn Faḍlallah Sharaf al-Din Shīrāzī (Persian: عبدالله ابن فضل‌الله شرف‌الدین شیرازی; 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 (Persian: وصّافِ حضرت), is a title meaning "court panegyrist".

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