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    proto-Canaanite inscription dating to the 12th century BCE in Khirbet ar-Ra'i, a time period seen by many as the historical setting for the Biblical...
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    Qays ibn Zuhayr (category CS1 Arabic-language sources (ar))
    amongst the pre-Islamic Arabs, Qays was a famed poet. He received the title "ar-Ra'i" due to the decisions he made, which the pre-Islamic Arabs favoured. Some...
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    Kafr Ra'i (Arabic: كفر راعي, transliterated Kafr Râày) is a Palestinian town in the Jenin Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank...
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  • referring to a cord amulet; c. 696 – c. 735) was a Bedouin poet and a rāwī of al-Rāʿī al-Numayrī (died c. 715). In the assessment of Nefeli Papoutsakis, 'he stands...
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  • Lamma Bada Yatathanna (category CS1 Arabic-language sources (ar))
    Muhammad Abdulrahim Al-Maslub [ar] (1793 - 1828 AD). The song is in 10/8 time. Its mode is the nahawand maqam (مقام نهاوند [ar], harmonic minor scale). The...
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    Alawaid, the first part and the main body of Draco, also called الْرُّبَع ar-Rubaʽ. Arrakis Azfar Adib Islamic astronomy List of proper names of stars...
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    variously spelled as Errai, Er Rai or Alrai, deriving from the Arabic الراعي (ar-rā‘ī), meaning 'the shepherd'. (The star Beta Ophiuchi is sometimes also called...
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    34.76972°E / 32.08750; 34.76972 Object no longer in use Israel Hasan ar-Ra‘i Nabi Musa Nabi Musa 31°46′51″N 35°25′29″E / 31.78083°N 35.42472°E /...
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  • Thumbnail for Bechara Boutros al-Rahi
    Bechara Boutros Al-Ra'i (or Raï; Arabic: بِشَارَة بُطرُس الرَّاعِيّ, romanized: Mor Bişâre Butrus er-Râî; Syriac: ܡܪܢ ܡܪܝ ܒܫܐܪܐ ܦܛܪܘܣ ܐܠܪܐܥܝ; Latin: Béchara...
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    after he started to write his weekly column in state-owned newspaper Al Ra'i. The column titled “Sawaleif”, in English “parables” became on the most read...
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