Mūsā nāma (The Book of Moses)
Mowlānā Shāhīn-i Shīrāzī
Artist Unknown
1686

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Mowlānā Shāhīn-i Shīrāzī
Mowlānā Shāhīn-i Shīrāzī was a Judeo-Persian poet, known for poetic epics that retell biblical books in rhymed couplets, a form called masnavī: Bereshit-nāmah (Genesis), Musā-nāmah (the story of Moses), Ardashir-nāmah (Esther); and Ezra-nāmah (Ezra). His name, likely assumed, means “Our Master the Royal Falcon of Shiraz.” He lived in Īlkhānid Persia during the rule of Bahādur Abū Sa‘īd (1316–1335), for whom he wrote a panegyric.
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