WebSalah (Arabic: صَلاة, plural salawat, romanized: Arabic pronunciation: [sˤaˈlaː(h)] or Old Arabic [t͡sˤaˈloːh] , ([sˤaˈlaːt] or Old Arabic [t͡sˤaˈloːtʰ] in construct state) lit. 'prayer'), also known as namāz (Persian: نماز) and also spelled salat, are prayers performed by Muslims.Facing the qibla, the direction of the Kaaba with respect to those praying, …

WebThe Arabic script has numerous diacritics, which include: consonant pointing known as iʻjām (إِعْجَام), and supplementary diacritics known as tashkīl (تَشْكِيل).The latter include the vowel marks termed ḥarakāt (حَرَكَات; singular: حَرَكَة, ḥarakah).. The Arabic script is a modified abjad, where short consonants and long vowels are represented by letters ...

WebThe writing systems used in ancient Egypt were deciphered in the early nineteenth century through the work of several European scholars, especially Jean-François Champollion and Thomas Young.Ancient Egyptian forms of writing, which included the hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic scripts, ceased to be understood in the fourth and fifth centuries AD, as the …

WebThe Neolithic site of Ashkelon is located on the Mediterranean coast, 1.5 kilometres (1 mi) north of Tel Ashkelon.It is dated by Radiocarbon dating to c. 7900 bp (uncalibrated), to the poorly known Pre-Pottery Neolithic C phase of the Neolithic. It was discovered and excavated in 1954 by French archaeologist Jean Perrot.In 1997–1998, a large scale …

WebʾIlāh (Arabic: إله; plural: آلهة ʾālihat) is an Arabic term meaning "god".In Arabic, ilah refers to anyone or anything that is worshipped. The feminine is ʾilāhat (إلاهة, meaning "goddess"); with the article, it appears as al-ʾilāhat (الإلاهة).The Arabic word for God is thought to be derived from it (in a proposed earlier form al-Lāh) though this is disputed.

WebFace (hieroglyph) Fadrus; Fagg El Gamous; Faiyum; Fall of Ashdod; False door; Famine Stela; Family tree of the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third Dynasties of Egypt