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Emrani · Arts & Literature

What

Judeo-Persian epic poet, author of the Fath-nama and the Ganj-nama

When

1454, Ispahan, Perse (Iran) — après 1536, Kashan, Perse (Iran)

Where

Ispahan, Kashan

Biography

Emrani is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Judeo-Persian epic poet, author of the Fath-nama and the Ganj-nama

How & why

Origins and early life

Emrani was born in 1454 in Isfahan, into the Jewish community of Persia, and spent the later part of his life in Kashan.

Work and career

With his predecessor Shahin, whose work he consciously continued, he is one of the two most prominent poets of Judeo-Persian literature — Persian verse written in Hebrew letters, the voice of Iranian Jewry. Around 1474, still a young man, he began his masterpiece, the Fath-nama, the Book of Conquest: an epic of roughly ten thousand couplets that carries the biblical books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Samuel into the grand narrative style of the Persian Shahnameh tradition, composed for Jewish patrons of Isfahan.

Ten complete works of his survive, most of them on Jewish themes. Late in life, in 1536, he completed the Ganj-nama, the Book of Treasure, a poetic reworking of the Mishnaic tractate of the Fathers, Pirkei Avot. The Encyclopaedia Iranica devotes a dedicated entry to him, and illustrated manuscripts of his epics are studied and translated to this day. He died in Kashan some time after 1536.

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Source: https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/emrani

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Judeo-Persian epic poet, author of the Fath-nama and the Ganj-nama

1474

Source: https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/emrani