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The subject of this article is the analysis of the type of Vassaf's look (663-730 AH) in five volumes of his history to Kalileh and Demneh, from the perspective of the theory of "aesthetics".“Theory of reception” emphasizes the relation between "reading- text" and the outstanding role of the reader in the meaning of the text rather than the relation of the “author- text”. Hans Robert Jauss, one of the founders and theorists of this approach, suggested that the meaning of the text varies according to the historical period and depending on its readers. The discovery of "the history of the meaning of the text" was one of his theoretical concerns. The perceptions in each period and in the writings of the great writers, as the reader of Kalileh and Demneh (as one of the masterpieces of Persian literature), as well as which part of this text are considered, can be used by contemporary critic for different analyzes and different angles of sight about this text. To clarify the kind of Vassaf's thought as one of the most important historical and literary figures of the Mongol era from Kalileh and Demnsh and facing it is one of the essential steps for compiling the "history of meaning" of Kalileh and Demneh, according to Hans Robert Jauss. The present study shows that the reading of Wisaf (as a historian who lived in the troubled conditions of the Mongol era) is an entirely political and critical reading of the narratives of this text, depending on the type of selection of stories and phrases.