right to left arabic characters in tables

Question

How to get right to left arabic characters inside a tabular environment with the arabi package without to have to insert the \AR command in each cell ?

\documentclass[A4,12pt]{article}
  \usepackage[ utf8 ]{inputenc}
  \usepackage[LAE]{fontenc}
  \usepackage[arabic]{babel} 

  \begin{document}

       الإسم 

      اللقب

     تاريخ الإزدياد   


  \vspace{2cm}

  \begin{tabular}{*{3}{c|}}

   الإسم&
  \AR{اللقب}&
   تاريخ الإزدياد  

 \end{tabular}

\end{document}

Answer 1

You can take advantage of array to create a new column type, first you need to define a Box which save the contents of the cell

\newsavebox{\RTLbox}
\newcolumntype{R}{>{\begin{lrbox}{\RTLbox}}c<{\end{lrbox}\AR{\unhbox\RTLbox}}}

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Code

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[ utf8 ]{inputenc}
\usepackage[LAE]{fontenc}
\usepackage[arabic]{babel} 
\usepackage{array}

\newsavebox{\RTLbox}
\newcolumntype{R}{>{\begin{lrbox}{\RTLbox}}c<{\end{lrbox}\AR{\unhbox\RTLbox}}}

\begin{document}

       الإسم

      اللقب

     تاريخ الإزدياد


\vspace{2cm}

\begin{tabular}{*{3}{R|}}

   الإسم&
  اللقب &
تاريخ الإزدياد  

\end{tabular}

\end{document}

Output