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Abadir Umar ar-Rida
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “phoenician name for the highest deity”. Today it says “legendary founder of harar and a patron saint in modern-day eastern ethiopia”.
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Abadir Umar Al-Rida ( Harari : አባዲር ዑመር አል-ሪዳ ፈቂ ዑመር, Arabic : الفقيه ابادر عمر الرضا ), also known as Aw Abadir or Aw Badir was the legendary founder of Harar and a patron saint in modern-day eastern Ethiopia . He is also regarded as the common ancestor of the Somali Marehan clan and the Harari people Shack, William (10 February 2017).
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phoenician name for the highest deity
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legendary founder of harar and a patron saint in modern-day eastern ethiopia
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