Ruhnama - Ashgabat, Turkmenistan - Dead Poets' Society Memorials on Waymarking.com

Saparmurat Niyazov was the first president of independent Turkmenistan. He wrote a book - Ruhnama - which was taken as the national book, mandatory to read to any student and even those seeking a driving license had to prove their proficiency in the book.

The book was in fact a collection of writings of Niyazov about the values of Turkmen and their nation. The name of the book translates as The Book of the Soul.

Accordingly to Wikipedia "Scholars note Ruhnama to be a "mosaic" of different literary genres, the text combines spiritual and political advice, legends, autobiography, short stories, poems, and (fabricated) Turkmen history. Written to "recover real Turkmen history without Soviet distortions", Niyazov promised the return of an atavist past from the times of Oghuz Khagan, but only if the conduct of ancient Turkmens were emulated in accordance to his sage guidance."
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