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The ensuing trade expansions and the spread of Islam to other areas of Southeast Asia from the 15th century carried the Jawi alphabet beyond the traditional Malay-speaking world. Until the 20th century, Jawi was the standard script of the Malay language, and gave birth to traditional Malay literature when it featured prominently in official ...
In English, the common ampersand (&) developed from a ligature in which the handwritten Latin letters e and t (spelling et, Latin for and) were combined. [1] The rules governing ligature formation in Arabic can be quite complex, requiring special script-shaping technologies such as the Arabic Calligraphic Engine by Thomas Milo's DecoType.
Qaf (Arabic: ق, the letter qāf), is the 50th chapter of the Qur'an with 45 verses . The name is taken from the single discrete Quranic " mysterious letter " qāf that opens the chapter. It is the beginning of the Hizb al-Mufassal , the seventh and the last portion ( manzil ).
(1) Early 9th century script used no dots or diacritic marks; [13] (2) and (3) in the 9th–10th century during the Abbasid dynasty, Abu al-Aswad's system used red dots with each arrangement or position indicating a different short vowel.
The Kansas City Chiefs saw their undefeated streak end in Week 11 with a loss on the road to the Buffalo Bills.Kansas City remains on the road again in Week 12 to face a Carolina Panthers team ...
On June 1, 2007, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. For half a century, the university has carried out its mandate as an institution of learning and transmitting knowledge, a research institution that supports the process of nation building, and as an institution devoted to the community that provides programs to improve social welfare.
DAMASCUS/LATAKIA, Syria (Reuters) -Syrian Christians attended regular Sunday services for the first time since the dramatic overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad a week ago, in an early test of ...
The fixed rate for a 15-year mortgage is 5.92%, up 8 basis points from last week's average 5.84%. These figures are lower than a year ago, when rates averaged 6.67% for a 30-year term and 5.95% ...