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.

Egyptian hieroglyphs (/ ˈ h aɪ r ə ˌ ɡ l ɪ f s /, / ˈ h aɪ r oʊ ˌ ɡ l ɪ f s /) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt, used for writing the Egyptian language.Hieroglyphs combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with some 1,000 distinct characters. Cursive hieroglyphs were used for religious literature on papyrus and wood. The later hieratic and …

The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, the Horn of Africa, and latterly North Africa, Malta, West Africa, and in large immigrant and expatriate communities in North America, Europe, and Australasia.The terminology was first used in the 1780s by members of the Göttingen …

In Arabic, Islam (Arabic: إسلام, lit. 'submission [to God]') is the verbal noun originating from the verb سلم (salama), from triliteral root س-ل-م (), which forms a large class of words mostly relating to concepts of wholeness, submission, sincerity, safeness, and peace. Islam is the verbal noun of Form IV of the root and means "submission" or "total surrender".

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 …

Consonants. The basic Arabic alphabet contains 28 letters.Adaptations of the Arabic script for other languages added and removed some letters, as for example Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish, Urdu, Sindhi, Azerbaijani (in Iran), Malay, Pashto, Punjabi, Uyghur, Arwi and Arabi Malayalam, all of which have additional letters as shown below.. There are no distinct upper …

Etymology and terminology. The word Šaiṭān (Arabic: شَيْطَان) originated from the triliteral root š-ṭ-n ("distant, astray") and cognate to Satan.It has a theological connotation designating a creature distant from the divine mercy. In pre-Islamic Arabia, this term was used to designate an evil spirit, but only used by poets who were in contact with Jews and Christians.

Classification. The Egyptian language belongs to the Afroasiatic language family. Among the typological features of Egyptian that are typically Afroasiatic are its fusional morphology, nonconcatenative morphology, a series of emphatic consonants, a three-vowel system /a i u/, nominal feminine suffix *-at, nominal m-, adjectival *-ī and characteristic personal verbal affixes.

In the context of the recitation of the Quran, tajwīd (Arabic: تجويد tajwīd, IPA: [tadʒˈwiːd], 'elocution') is a set of rules for the correct pronunciation of the letters with all their qualities and applying the various traditional methods of recitation ().In Arabic, the term tajwīd is derived from the verb جود (jawada), from the triliteral root ج-و-د ‎ (j-w-d), meaning ...

In Islam, Jannah (Arabic: جَنّة, romanized: janna, pl. جَنّٰت jannāt, Turkish: Cennet), lit. "paradise, garden", is the final abode of the righteous. According to one count, the word appears 147 times in the Quran. Belief in the afterlife is one of the six articles of faith in Sunni and Twelver Shi'ism, a place where "believers" (Mumin) will enjoy pleasure, while the unbelievers ...