RAYAH (Arabic ra'iyah, peasants, subjects,

See also:

• FLOCK

flock,

See also:

• HERD (a word common to Teutonic languages; the O. Eng. form was heord; cf. Ger. Herde, Swed. and Dan. hjord; the Sans. ca'rdhas, which shows the pre-Teutonic form, means a troop)

herd, ra'a, to pasture, cf. "

See also:

• RYOT, or RAVAT (from the Arabic ra'a, " to pasture ")

ryot," an Indo-

See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian variant of the same word)  , the name given to the non-Moslem subjects of a Mahommedan ruler; all who pay the haraj or poll-tax levied earth's atmosphere . Lord Rayleigh had an interest in abnormal psychological investigations, and became a member and vice-president of the Society for Psychical Research . He was one of the original members of the Order of Merit, instituted in connexion with the coronation of King Edward VII . In 1904 he was awarded a Nobel prize, and at the end of 1905 he became president of the Royal Society, of which he had been elected a fellow in 1873, and had acted as secretary from 1885 to 1896 . He remained president till 1908, in which year he was chosen to succeed the 8th duke of Devonshire as chancellor of Cambridge University . For a popular but authentic account of some of Lord Rayleigh's scientific work and discoveries, see an article by Sir Oliver Lodge in the National Review for September 1898 . on unbelievers . Five classes of rayahs existed under Turkish rule,—(r) the Greek, or Roum milleti; (2) the Armenian, or Emeni milleti; (3) the Catholic Armenians—eremeni gatoliki milleti; (4) the Latin Christians, or Roum gatoliki milleti; and (5) the Jews, or ichondi milleti . The name rayah is most commonly used of the peasants, but it does not apply only to the agricultural populations . It depended on status, fixed by religious faith .