Geschichte Waṣṣāf´s, Band 1

This volume is the first of five volumes of the “History of Waṣṣāf” in the German translation by the Austrian orientalist Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774–1856). For the first volume, Hammer-Purgstall produced an edition of the Persian text that was set in specially-created Persian characters as based on the manuscripts of the text held in the Austrian National Library (ÖNB NF 220a and ÖNB NF 220b). The translation was originally published in 1856. The initial volume reprinted here begins a new edition of the German translation, which is preserved as manuscripts in the archives of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The author of this important source for the history of Iran in the Mongolian period, Šaraf ad-Dīn Dīn ʿAbd Allāh b. Faḍl Allāh Waṣṣāf from Shiraz, describes the history of his home province of Fars, also covering the neighboring dynasties extensively. The first volume discusses the history of the Mongolian conquests of the 13th century, and continues up to the accession to the throne by Arġūn, the fourth Il-Khan (683–689/1284–1291).