A Brief History Of Iran
Yasir Qadhi
Muslim Central
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:12.7 | Today's lecture, obviously it is of relevance given the, what is happening, but I want to |
| 0:19.1 | make it clear that it is not a political analysis today at least. |
| 0:23.0 | And there's no theological or sectarian issues. I want to give you some useful information, |
| 0:28.5 | inshallah to a. That will help you understand better that part of the world. |
| 0:33.3 | And maybe in the future we can talk more detail. But this is one of the most interesting sections and regions of the Muslim world. |
| 0:41.8 | And I have to summarize its history in 20 minutes. |
| 0:46.1 | So this is a very big task, but it is still, inshallah,u ta'a, beginning the conversation |
| 0:51.8 | so that you can understand and situate yourself to understand what is |
| 0:55.7 | happening. Apologies, my voice, as you can tell us off. I'm a little bit under the weather. May Allah |
| 1:00.9 | give us shifa all of us, inshallah. So realize that this land that we call Iran, this land is actually |
| 1:08.1 | one of the most historic and influential in human civilization, not just in Islamic civilization. |
| 1:14.4 | And even from the earliest of times, some of the earliest of recorded histories, this land produced some of the most important figures in global history and some of the most powerful civilizations known to mankind. You have people like Cyrus the Great and some of the most powerful civilizations known to mankind. |
| 1:28.3 | You have people like Cyrus the Great, and Cyrus the Great, actually some of the scholars even considered him to be |
| 1:34.3 | Dulqarnain. |
| 1:35.3 | You know there's a controversy who is Dulqarnain, and there are many contenders. |
| 1:40.3 | One of the contenders is Cyrus the Great. |
| 1:42.3 | I'm not saying that's right or wrong, I'm just saying that is one of the contender. Cyrus the Great is considered to be the founder of the contenders is Cyrus the Great. I'm not saying that's right or wrong. I'm just saying that is one of the contender. |
| 1:45.3 | Cyrus the Great is considered to be the founder of the first great civilization of Iran in 550 BC, |
| 1:52.4 | and it stretched over three continents. |
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