Emrānī (or ''Imrānī''; 1454–1536) was a Judæo-Persian poet, being "one of the most prominent Jewish poets of Iran". Emrānī was inspired by the earlier poet Shāhīn to choose "as his field the post-Mosaic era from

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Major works

* ''Fatḥ-Nameh'' ("The Book of the Conquest," begun in 1474, unfinished) * ''Ganj-Nameh'' ("The Book of the Treasures", completed in 1536)

References

1454 births 1536 deaths Jewish poets 16th-century Persian-language poets 15th-century Persian-language poets 15th-century Jews 16th-century Jews Medieval Iranian Jews 16th-century people from Safavid Iran Iranian Jews {{Judaism-bio-stub