Rayy , Ray or Rey currently Chahr-e-Rey شهررى , formerly Ragâ in the Avesta, Rages in the Bible (Tobie I, 16), Rages (Greek: Ραγες) under Alexandre Large the or Europos (Greek: ευρωπος, vast; roomy ) for the Séleucides. City of the Province of Teheran, located at 15 km of the town of Teheran.

History

  • Zarathushtra would have been born there in 626 av. J. - C..
  • Destroyed with the Arab conquest (640).
  • Second city of the Abbasid empire after Baghdad.
  • the future caliph Al-Mahdî was named there governor. He rebuilds city and re-elected it Al-Muhammadiya .
  • Hârûn rear-Rachid was born to with it in 766.
  • Rhazès (Arab: Ar-Râziy), doctor and philosopher were born there in 860. Ar-Râziy is attribution at the town of Ray, in Arab language . Several Moslem personalities bore this name.
  • Capital of the kingdom of the Bouyides at the end of the 10th century.
  • Taken by the Seldjoukides in 1042.
  • the poet and philosopher rear-Râzî Fakhr AD-DIN was born there in 1149.
  • Destroyed by the Mongolian in 1220.
  • Supplanted by Teheran when the Qajar establish their capital in there 1786.

This city was a hearth of dispute during the Abbasid caliphate. Shiite Mutazilites and of all the sects found refuge there.

Monuments

  • Mausoleum of Shah `Abd Al `Azim , descendant of Husayn which contains also it falls from a brother of the Imam `rear-Ridâ Alî.
  • ruins of the fortress Sassanide.
  • the funerary tower of the seldjoukide Tuğrul Bey.

Famous natives

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