Abu al-Qasim Kashani (died after 1324) was a
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
historian from the Abu Tahir family, who was active during the late
Ilkhanate
The Ilkhanate, also spelled Il-khanate ( fa, ایل خانان, ''Ilxānān''), known to the Mongols as ''Hülegü Ulus'' (, ''Qulug-un Ulus''), was a khanate established from the southwestern sector of the Mongol Empire. The Ilkhanid realm, ...
era. He is notable for claiming that the vizier of the Ilkhanate,
Rashid al-Din Hamadani, had stolen credit for the historical work ''
Jami' al-tawarikh''. Although modern scholarship regard Rashid al-Din as the overall author of the work, he is generally considered to have been aided by several assistants, including Kashani.
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* {{Encyclopædia Iranica , volume = 1 , fascicle = 4 , title = Abu'l-Qāsem ʿAbdallāh Kāshānī , last = Soucek , first = P. P. , url = https://iranicaonline.org/articles/abul-qasem-abdallah-kasani-historian-of-the-reign-of-the-il-khan-olaytu-r , pages = 362–363
14th-century deaths
People from Kashan
14th-century Iranian historians
Ilkhanate historians