Literature
There is an extensive Judæo-Persian poetic religious literature, closely modelled on classical Persian poetry. The most famous poet was Meulana Shahin Shirazi (14th century C.E.), who composed epic paraphrases of parts of the Bible, such as the Musa-nama (history of Moses); later poets composed lyric poetry of a Sufi cast. Much of this literature was collected around the beginning of the twentieth century by a Persian rabbi who had moved to Israel.
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