{{Short description|Persian poet (1454–1536)}} '''Emrānī''' (or ''Imrānī''; 1454–1536) was a Judæo-Persian poet, being "one of the most prominent Jewish poets of Iran".<ref>Yeroushalmi, David (1995), ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Yjf0bM5sFaEC The Judeo-Persian poet ʻEmrānī and his "Book of treasure": ʻEmrānī's Ganǰ-nāme, a versified commentary on the Mishnaic tractate Abot]'', Brill Publishers, {{ISBN|978-90-04-10301-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Yeroushalmi|first1=David|title=EMRĀNĪ|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/emrani|publisher=Encyclopaedia Iranica|accessdate=2 April 2017|language=en}}</ref> 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".<ref name=JVL/>
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".<ref name=JVL/> Emrānī's last great work, ''Ganj-Nameh'' ("The Book of the Treasures"), is "a free poetic paraphrase of and commentary on the mishnaic treatise Avot".<ref name=JVL>Jewish Virtual Library, [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0011_0_10464.html JUDEO-PERSIAN]</ref>
Like his predecessor Shahin, he sought to compose a national epic analogous to the Shahnameh.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lieberman |first=Phillip I. |date=2021-12-23 |title=Jews as Producers and Consumers of History in the Medieval Islamicate World |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/qsa/16/1-2/article-p292_11.xml |journal=Quaderni di Studi Arabi |volume=16 |issue=1–2 |pages=292–312 |doi=10.1163/2667016X-16010012 |issn=2667-016X|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
==Major works== * ''Fatḥ-Nameh'' ("The Book of the Conquest," begun in 1474, unfinished) * ''Ganj-Nameh'' ("The Book of the Treasures", completed in 1536)
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