Abu'l-Qasem ʿAbdallah Kasani

Abu'l-Qāsem ʿAbdallāh Kāšānī (fl. early 14th century) was a Persian historian of the reign of the Mongol Il-khan Olǰāytū. He belonged to the Abu Taher family of potters.

Works

1. Zobdat al-tawārīḵ ('The Quintessence of History'), 1303, dedicated to the Il-khan, a history of the Islamic world down to the siege of Baghdad; mostly unpublished.
2. Tārīḵ-e Olǰāytū, 1325, an account of the Il-khan's reign.
3. ʿArāʾes al-ǰawāher wa nafāʾes al-aṭāʾeb, a work on mineralogy, gemmology and perfumery, to which is appended a short treatise on ceramics.

Sources

• Afshar, Iraj (2003). "Persian Historiography from the Īlkhānid Period to the Vigilance and Renaissance Eras". In İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin (ed.). Culture and Learning in Islam. The Different Aspects of Islamic Culture 5. UNESCO Publishing. p. 514.
• Soucek, P. P. (21 July 2011) [1983]. "Abu'l-Qāsem ʿAbdallāh Kāšānī". Encyclopædia Iranica. Vol. I/4 (online ed.). pp. 362–3.

Further reading

• Allan, J. W. (1973). "Abū'l-Qāsim's Treatise on Ceramics". Iran. 11: 111–20.