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From Shahnameh, “Book of Kings”, Iran’s national epos, written by the poet Ferdowsi in the 11th century

The same thing happened in Pakistan - the regions pre-Islamic history has largely been expunged from the schools history books. The radical Islamist political factions in Pakistan - walked out of Parliament in protest of its inclusion - saying - their history comes from Arabia.

There goes Cyrus the Great!!

Yaqub Tavakoli, the head of the history research team in the Iranian Ministry of Education, stirred a controversy last week when he said that due to coming changes in history textbooks, chapters pertaining to the political and military history of Iran’s kings would be gradually removed. According to Tavakoli, they will be substituted by new chapters on important Muslim thinkers and philosophers in Iran. He noted that the Ministry of Education also intended to put more emphasis on the Islamic revolution in history textbooks (Mehr, September 22).

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