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A (رحل, रिहल, রেহাল, رَحْل) or rahle rahle) or (طاولة), is an X-shaped, foldable book rest or lectern used to hold religious scriptures for reverent display, as well as during reading or recitation. It is designed to collapse into a flat form for portability and storage when not in use.[1]

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  1. 36 relations: Abuja National Mosque, Ancient Egypt, Arab world, Arabesque, Arabic calligraphy, Bengali language, Bible, Bible box, Bible case, Christianity, Communion table, Devanagari transliteration, Eastern Christianity, Ethnographic Museum of Kraków, Hinduism, Hindus, Hindustani language, Islam, Japji Sahib, Jerusalem cross, Lectern, Mosque, Museum with No Frontiers, Muslim world, Muslims, Nigeria, Quran, Ramayana, Recitation, Religious text, Roman Urdu, Romanization of Arabic, Saddle, Sikhism, Sikhs, South Asia.

  2. Hindu culture
  3. Religious furniture
  4. Sikh culture

Abuja National Mosque

The Abuja National Mosque, also known as the Nigerian National Mosque, is the national mosque of Nigeria.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Arab world

The Arab world (اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), formally the Arab homeland (اَلْوَطَنُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), also known as the Arab nation (اَلْأُمَّةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, comprises a large group of countries, mainly located in Western Asia and Northern Africa.

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Arabesque

The arabesque is a form of artistic decoration consisting of "surface decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage, tendrils" or plain lines, often combined with other elements. Rehal (book rest) and arabesque are Islamic culture.

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Arabic calligraphy

Arabic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy based on the Arabic alphabet.

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Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.

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Bible box

A Bible box is a small container that is used to store a bible.

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Bible case

A Bible case is a small, generally rectangular shaped bag, the primary purpose of which is to protect the owner's Bible from damage and also to allow the owner to easily identify their bible from others.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Communion table

Communion table and Lord's table are terms used by many Protestant churches—particularly from Reformed, Baptist and low church Anglican and Methodist bodies—for the table used for preparation of Holy Communion (a sacrament also called the Eucharist).

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Devanagari transliteration

Devanagari is an Indic script used for many Indo-Aryan languages of North India and Nepal, including Hindi, Marathi and Nepali, which was the script used to write Classical Sanskrit.

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Eastern Christianity

Eastern Christianity comprises Christian traditions and church families that originally developed during classical and late antiquity in the Eastern Mediterranean region or locations further east, south or north.

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Ethnographic Museum of Kraków

The Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum of Kraków (Muzeum Etnograficzne im.) is a museum in Kazimierz, Kraków, Poland.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.

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Hindus

Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.

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Hindustani language

Hindustani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India, Pakistan and the Deccan and used as the official language of India and Pakistan. Hindustani is a pluricentric language with two standard registers, known as Hindi (written in Devanagari script and influenced by Sanskrit) and Urdu (written in Perso-Arabic script and influenced by Persian and Arabic).

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Japji Sahib

Japji Sahib (ਜਪੁਜੀ ਸਾਹਿਬ, pronunciation) is the Sikh thesis, that appears at the beginning of the Guru Granth Sahib – the scripture of the Sikhs.

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Jerusalem cross

The Jerusalem cross (also known as "five-fold Cross", or "cross-and-crosslets") is a heraldic cross and Christian cross variant consisting of a large cross potent surrounded by four smaller Greek crosses, one in each quadrant.

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Lectern

A lectern is a standing reading desk with a slanted top, on which documents or books are placed as support for reading aloud, as in a scripture reading, lecture, or sermon.

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Mosque

A mosque, also called a masjid, is a place of worship for Muslims.

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Museum with No Frontiers

Museum With No Frontiers (MWNF) is an international non-profit organisation founded on the initiative of Eva Schubert in 1995 in the context of the Barcelona Process Euro-Mediterranean Partnership relaunched as the Union for the Mediterranean). MWNF provides a platform that enables all partners to interact productively and contribute to a transnational presentation of history, art and culture based on equal voices and the equal visibility of all concerned.

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Muslim world

The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah. Rehal (book rest) and Muslim world are Islamic culture.

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Muslims

Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.

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Quran

The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah). Rehal (book rest) and Quran are Islamic terminology.

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Ramayana

The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.

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Recitation

A recitation in a general sense is the act of reciting from memory, or a formal reading of verse or other writing before an audience.

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Religious text

Religious texts, including scripture, are texts which various religions consider to be of central importance to their religious tradition.

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Roman Urdu

Roman Urdu is the name used for the Urdu language written with the Latin script, also known as Roman script.

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Romanization of Arabic

The romanization of Arabic is the systematic rendering of written and spoken Arabic in the Latin script.

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Saddle

A saddle is a supportive structure for a rider of an animal, fastened to an animal's back by a girth.

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Sikhism

Sikhism, also known as Sikhi (ਸਿੱਖੀ,, from translit), is a monotheistic religion and philosophy, that originated in the Punjab region of India around the end of the 15th century CE.

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Sikhs

Sikhs (singular Sikh: or; sikkh) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhism, a religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak.

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South Asia

South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.

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See also

Hindu culture

Religious furniture

Sikh culture

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehal_(book_rest)

Also known as Bible stand, Rahils.