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Jodoh, sejatinya adalah hak prerogatif Tuhan. Tak seorang pun dapat menentukan dengan siapa ia menikah, tetapi semua orang bisa mengusahakan dengan memantaskan diri dan terus berdoa agar mendapat yang terbaik. Namun, apa jadinya jika sudah berusaha maksimal memantaskan diri dan berdoa untuk mendapatkan jodoh yang sesuai keinginan hati, justru Tuhan memberi yang sebaliknya? Bagaimana jadinya ketika takdir jodoh adalah orang yang sama sekali tak pernah sekadar dibayangkan, apalagi diharapkan? Rida, seorang gadis perfeksionis yang mendambakan pria tanpa mantan sebagai jodohnya. Namun, justru dipertemukan takdir dengan Tama, pria dengan banyak wanita di masa lalu. Mampukah gadis itu menerima tak...
Dalam memperbaiki diri sesuai syari'at Islam yang rahmatan lil'alamin, pasti ada banyak hal yang bisa dirangkai menjadi cerita tentang lika-liku proses perjalanan hijrah. Pergolakan batin serta penolakan dari lingkungan hingga orang-orang terdekat, menjadi ajang uji nyali dalam mendekap utuh iman yang hakiki. Membentuk pahit-manis pengalaman agar bisa diceritakan pada anak-cucu.
Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion surveys two thousand years of the Christian missionary enterprise in the Middle East within the context of the region's political evolution. Its broad, rich narrative follows Christian missions as they interacted with imperial powers and as the momentum of religious change shifted from Christianity to Islam and back, adding new dimensions to the history of the region and the nature of the relationship between the Middle East and the West. Historians and political scientists increasingly recognize the importance of integrating religion into political analysis, and this volume, using long-neglected sources, uniquely advances this effort. It surveys Christian ...
Examines the popular traditions and beliefs of the people in the Coptic Church
In this pioneering account of Egyptian educational history, Paul Sedra describes how the Egyptian state under Muhammad Ali Pasha sought to forge a new relationship with children during the nineteenth century. Through the introduction of modern forms of education, brought to Egypt by evangelical missions, the state aimed to ensure children's loyal service to the state, whether through conscription or forced labour. However, these schemes of educational reform, most prominently Joseph Lancaster's monitorial system, led to unforeseen consequences as students in Egypt's new modern schools resisted efforts to control their behaviour in creative and complex ways, and these acts of resistance themselves led to new forms of political identity. Tracing the development of a distinctly Egyptian 'modernity', From Mission to Modernity is indispensable for all those interested in Egyptian history and the history of modern education and reform.
Looks at the history, traditions, theology and structure of the ancient and modern churches and monasteries.
Based on different problematic and methodological perspectives and new sources, this book's contributions lie in the close study of welfare beyond the religious divides, codifications and indoctrinations. The time span - from 1850 to the present day - represents moments of colonisations, occupations, wars and conflicts which resulted in un-met needs and broken down institutions. What are the stories behind health care, schools, orphanages and vocational schools, maternity homes and hostels? The collection of chapters examine different involvements in welfare activities not only as contextualised in stable communities and nations, but also as they emerge in vulnerable states and disintegrating societies. Furthermore, this volume brings forth the historical and contemporary voices of those who provide relief and the beneficiaries of such efforts. At the core of this book are themes concerned with humanitarianism in relation to people's unique experiences, state and non-governmental organisations, gender and modernity.
Egypt has changed enormously in the last half century, and nowhere more so than in the villages of the Nile Valley. Electrification, radio, and television have brought the larger world into the houses. Government schools have increased educational horizons for the children. Opportunities to work in other areas of the Arab world have been extended to peasants as well as to young artisans from the towns. Urbanization has brought many families to live in the belts of substandard housing around the major cities. But the conservative and traditional world of unremitting labor that characterizes the lives of the Egyptian peasants, or fellaheen, also survives, and nowhere has it been better describ...
The Cambridge History of Christianity offers a comprehensive chronological account of the development of Christianity in all its aspects - theological, intellectual, social, political, regional, global - from its beginnings to the present day. Each volume makes a substantial contribution in its own right to the scholarship of its period and the complete History constitutes a major work of academic reference. Far from being merely a history of Western European Christianity and its offshoots, the History aims to provide a global perspective. Eastern and Coptic Christianity are given full consideration from the early period onwards, and later, African, Far Eastern, New World, South Asian and ot...