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Ras Ali II of Yejju
Ras Ali II of Yejju (ራስ አሊ), born Ali Alula, was the Ras of Ethiopia's Yejju dynasty, overthrown in 1853 by his son-in-law Kassa Hailu.
Ras Alula Engida
Ras Alula Engida (ራስ አሉላ), also known as Abba Nega, was an Ethiopian general who won victories over Egypt, the Mahdists, and Italy between 1875 and 1897.
Ras Baraka
Ras J. Baraka, 40th mayor of Newark, New Jersey, since July 1, 2014, son of Amiri Baraka; known for lead pipe replacement, police consent decree completion, 2025 ICE arrest, and fourth term.
Ras Mala
Ras Mala (રાસમાલા) is a history of Gujarat written in English by the British official Alexander Kinloch Forbes and published in London in 1856 in two volumes.
RAS syndrome
RAS syndrome, or Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome, is the humorous term coined by New Scientist in 2001 for redundant phrases like "PIN number" and "ATM machine", where a word inside an acronym or initialism is repeated alongside it.
Rasa (रस) (aesthetics)
Rasa (रस), Sanskrit for juice or essence, is the foundational category of Indian aesthetics: the aestheticised emotion produced in spectators via the Natyashastra's rasa sutra, eight or nine rasas, and Abhinavagupta's commentary tradition.
Rasa'il al-Qadi al-Fadil
Rasa'il al-Qadi al-Fadil (رسائل القاضي الفاضل) is the collected official and private correspondence of al-Qadi al-Fadil, Saladin's chancery chief, counselor, and financier, regarded as a key source for Ayyubid history.
Rasa'il of Abd al-Hamid al-Katib
The Rasa'il of Abd al-Hamid al-Katib (رسائل عبد الحميد الكاتب) are the surviving chancery epistles of Abd al-Hamid b. Yahya, chief secretary of the last Umayyad caliph, Marwan II.
Rasail Ikhwan al-Safa
Rasail Ikhwan al-Safa is an encyclopedia of 52 epistles on the sciences, written in ninth- and tenth-century Iraq, mainly Basra and Baghdad, by a secret fraternity of philosophically trained literati.
Rasavad
Rasavad (रसवाद) is a doctrine in Sanskrit and Hindi poetics holding that rasa, aesthetic sentiment, is the soul of poetry; in Hindi it is associated with the Ritikaal poets Dev, Matiram, and Bihari.
Rasavahini
Rasavahini (Pali Rasavāhinī) is a Pali collection of 103 Buddhist legends composed in Sri Lanka by the monk Vedeha Thera, most likely between the 12th and 14th centuries.
Rasch model
The Rasch model, also called Rasch analysis, is a psychometric item-response model that converts the difference between a person's ability and an item's difficulty into the probability of a correct response.
Rash Behari Bose (রাসবিহারী বসু)
Rash Behari Bose (রাসবিহারী বসু, 1886–1945), Indian revolutionary: organized the 1912 Delhi bomb attack on Viceroy Hardinge, fled to Japan in 1915 as 'Nakamuraya no Bose', led the Indian Independence League and first INA, and handed leadership to Subhas Chandra Bose in July 1943.
RaShaun Kemp
RaShaun Kemp is an American Democratic politician elected in 2024 to the Georgia State Senate from District 38 in Fulton County, the first openly gay Black man elected to the chamber.
Rashbam (רשב"ם)
Rashbam (רשב"ם), Samuel ben Meir, was a twelfth-century French rabbi and grandson of Rashi, known for a Torah commentary on the plain sense of Scripture.
Rashepses
Rashepses, also read Shepsesre, was a chief justice and vizier of ancient Egypt's Fifth Dynasty who served King Djedkare Isesi and was buried in a large mastaba tomb at Saqqara.
Rashi (רש״י)
Rashi, also known as Shlomo Yitzchaki, was a French rabbi of Troyes whose commentaries on the Bible and Talmud became the most influential in Jewish history.
Rashid ad-Din Sinan
Rashid ad-Din Sinan (d. 1193), the Old Man of the Mountain, was the chief da'i of the Syrian Nizari Ismailis for about three decades, based at Masyaf; he fought Saladin, allied with Crusaders and Zangids, and died at Kahf.
Rashid Ahmad Gangohi
Rashid Ahmad Gangohi (رشید احمد گنگوہی) was an Indian Islamic scholar and Chishti-Sabiri Sufi shaykh who co-founded Darul Uloom Deoband and led it until his death in 1905.
Rashid al-Din Hamadani
Rashid al-Din Hamadani, full name Rashid al-Din Fadl Allah, was a Persian physician and vizier of the Mongol Ilkhanate of Iran, born around 1247 and executed in 1318.
Rashid al-Din Sinan
Rashid al-Din Sinan (رشيد الدين سنان) led the Nizari Ismailis in Syria during the crusader era, known to Europeans as the Old Man of the Mountain.
Rashid al-Vatvat
Rashid al-Vatvat (رشيد الوطواط) was a Persian and Arabic poet, philologist, and prose writer who served as chief secretary to the Khwarazmshahs in the twelfth century and wrote Hada'iq al-sihr, an early Persian treatise on rhetoric.
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani (رشيد عالي الكيلاني) was an Iraqi politician, born in Baghdad in 1892, who led the nationalist government that brought Iraq into war with Britain in May 1941.
Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum
Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum (1981-2015), eldest son of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum; former heir apparent, endurance-riding double gold medalist at Doha 2006, Zabeel Racing owner; died of a heart attack at 33.
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum (راشد بن سعيد آل مكتوم, 1912–1990), Ruler of Dubai 1958–1990, UAE Vice President and Prime Minister, co-founder of the 1971 union with Sheikh Zayed, and builder of Port Rashid, Dubai airport, and Jebel Ali Port.
Rashid Hassan
Rashid Hassan, full name Rashid Mekki Hassan, was a Sudanese and South African environmental economist who founded and directed CEEPA at the University of Pretoria until 2016.
Rashida Tlaib
Rashida Tlaib, Democratic U.S. Representative for Michigan's 12th District since 2019 (first the 13th), first Palestinian American woman in Congress, one of the first two Muslim women elected with Ilhan Omar, censured by the House in November 2023.
Rashidi dynasty
Rashidi dynasty (Al Rashid, آل رشيد): Shammar tribal dynasty ruling Ha'il and Jabal Shammar in northern Arabia 1835–1921, allied with the Ottomans 1880–1918 and chief rivals of the House of Saud until Ibn Saud took Riyadh in 1902.
Rashidi Kawawa
Rashidi Mfaume Kawawa was a Tanzanian politician and trade union leader who served as Prime Minister of Tanganyika and, from 1972 to 1977, of Tanzania.
Rashidun (الراشدون)
Rashidun (الراشدون, al-khulafa al-rashidun, "rightly guided caliphs") is the Sunni designation for the first four successors of Muhammad: Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali, who ruled the caliphate of 632–661 CE.