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Re:Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999) by mehrdadn on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @09:38PM (#20631312)
A whopping ~2% of Iranians have Arabic as their native language. That means, if you're going based on language, you're mislabeling 98% of the population.
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Re:Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999) by dfhdshfff on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @01:11AM (#20632129)
I hold it to be obvious that I'm talking about the scientists (That lived in the Islamic Golden age) not about modern day Iran.

Plus Most of them were not born in Iran proper.

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