Baba'i ben Lotf
Baba'i ben Lotf (died after 1662) was a Jewish poet and historian in 17th-century Safavid Iran. He lived in Kashan, where he probably originally hailed from, and was the author of the first Judeo-Persian chronicle, the Ketāb-e anūsī, or the Book of the forced convert (see anusim). It consists of some 5,300 verses written in Persian using the Hebrew script, or Judeo-Persian.
Baba'i ben Lotf
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- 1700
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- Safavid Iran
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- poet · writer · historian
- Languages
- Persian
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Baba'i ben Lotf (died after 1662) was a Jewish poet and historian in 17th-century Safavid Iran. He lived in Kashan, where he probably originally hailed from, and was the author of the first Judeo-Persian chronicle, the Ketāb-e anūsī, or the Book of the forced convert (see anusim). It consists of some 5,300 verses written in Persian using the Hebrew script, or Judeo-Persian.
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Ben Lotf was forcibly converted to Islam, but practiced Judaism in secret. It is considered one of the first historical narrative works of Iranian Jews. He is a member of the crypto-Jewish community of Iran. Baba'i ben Farhad (fl. 18th century) was one of his grandsons who followed in his footsteps as a chronicler.
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