Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses.After the retirement of William P. Sisler in 2017, the university appointed as Director George Andreou.

Arabic. The verb form of Q-D-S in Arabic (qadus) means "to be holy" or "to be pure, immaculate".Quds can be used as a noun to denote "paradise" or as an adjective meaning "purity" or "holiness". The definite noun form, al-Quds (Arabic: القدس, "the holy one"), is the most common of seventeen Arabic Names of Jerusalem and derives from the Aramaean word for …

Harem (Persian: حرمسرا haramsarā, Arabic: حَرِيمٌ ḥarīm, "a sacred inviolable place; harem; female members of the family") refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family. A harem may house a man's wife or wives, their pre-pubescent male children, unmarried daughters, female domestic servants, and other unmarried female relatives.

Satan, also known as the Devil, and sometimes also called Lucifer in Christianity, is an entity in the Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin or falsehood. In Judaism, Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God, typically regarded as a metaphor for the yetzer hara, or "evil inclination."In Christianity and Islam, he is usually seen as a fallen angel or jinn who has …