Emrānī (or
Imrānī; 1454–1536) was a Judæo-Persian poet, being "one of the most prominent
Persian Jews".
[Yeroushalmi, David (1995), The Judeo-Persian poet ʻEmrānī and his "Book of treasure": ʻEmrānī's Ganǰ-nāme, a versified commentary on the Mishnaic tractate Abot, Brill Publishers, ] Emrānī was inspired by the earlier poet Shāhīn to choose "as his field the post-Mosaic era from
Joshua to the period of
David and
Solomon".
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His major work, Fatḥ-Nameh ("The Book of the Conquest," begun in 1474, unfinished), describes in poetry "the events of the biblical books of Joshua, Ruth, and Samuel".[ Emrānī's last great work, Ganj-Nameh ("The Book of the Treasures"), is "a free poetic paraphrase of and commentary on the Mishnah treatise Pirkei Avot".][Jewish Virtual Library, JUDEO-PERSIAN]
Like his predecessor Shahin, he sought to compose a national epic analogous to the Shahnameh.
Major works
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Fatḥ-Nameh ("The Book of the Conquest," begun in 1474, unfinished)
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Ganj-Nameh ("The Book of the Treasures", completed in 1536)
