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2 unusual facts about Rashid al-Din Vatvat


Rashid al-Din Vatvat

While serving as court poet, it was through him that Atsiz ibn Muhammad boasted of the end of the Great Seljuq empire.

Vatvat

Rashid al-Din Vatvat, 12th century Persian royal panegyrist and epistolographer


Abu Abdullah al-Rashid al-Baghdadi

He was killed in a safe house six miles (10 kilometers) southwest of Tikrit and was found dead in a hole in the ground inside a house.

On 18 April 2010, al-Baghdadi was reported killed over the weekend when a joint operation of American and Iraqi forces rocketed a home where he was hiding near Tikrit, Iraq.

Rashid Al-Daif

Margaret Drabble pays tribute to her long-standing friendship to Al-Daif and his wife in her contribution to the 2006 book "Lebanon, Lebanon".

Rashid al-Ghannushi

He received his certificate of attainment degree, equivalent to the Baccalauréat, in 1962 from the University of Zaytuna.

Rashid al-Rifai

There Rashid graduated earned his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with honors which culminated in yet another scholarship at Rice University in Houston, Texas, this time earning him a Ph.D. in the same subject.


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