Abu'l-Qasem ʿAbdallah Kasani

Abu'l-Qāsem ʿAbdallāh Kāšānī 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of History'), 1303, dedicated to the Il-khan, a history of the Islamic world down to the siege of Baghdad; mostly unpublished.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.