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Tempo perjalanan hidup manusia terkadang merangkak lambat, tak jarang juga cepat melesat bagai kilat. Itu semua tergantung harmoni dan ritme pikiran, hati, dan jejak langkah yang kita tempa. Saat melodi cinta yang terdengar, tentu bunga-bunga bermekaran dalam taman hati. Demikian pula saat nada menyayat rasa, derai air mata pun berubah menjadi lautan duka. Namun, apapun lagu yang sedang bersenandung dalam panggung hidupmu, tetaplah tersenyu, dan nikmati setiap sensai rasa. Karena alunan musik takdir semesta akan membawamu pada puncak sejatinya jiwa.
Takdir telah menyatukan Adam dan Hawa, bertemu ketika melewati pengembaraan panjang berteman duka. Begitu pula yang dialami oleh Meyda dan Zulham. Mereka telah melewati sebuah jalan terjal kehidupan. Hubungan Meyda dan sang kekasih yang tak direstui, pada akhirnya musnah karena kekasihnya mengalami kecelakaan dan menutup mata. Pedih hati menjadi teman sejati yang mengisi hari-harinya. Belum pulih kepedihan, gadis berhijab itu dihadapkan pada kenyataan yang sebenarnya tentang kedua orang tua tercinta. Sementara Zulham harus rela surganya hancur. Akibatnya lelaki itu semakin dingin pada wanita, serta beranggapan bahwa semua wanita itu bermuara pada materi belaka. Meyda dan Zulham bertemu dalam garis takdir yang tak terduga. Mereka menjalani ikrar sehidup semati, meski tanpa ada rasa cinta. Meyda tegar menghadapi sikap dingin Zulham. Keikhlasan akan membawanya menjadi wanita bahagia, cinta akan datang pada masa yang tak terduga. Itulah prinsip dari gadis bermata bulat itu.
Everything Is Sampled examines the shifting modes of production and circulation of African artistic forms since the 1980s, focusing on digital culture as the most currently decisive setting for these changes. Drawing on works of cinema, literature, music, and visual art, Akin Adekan. addresses two main questions. First, given the various changes that the institutions producing African arts and letters have undergone in the past four decades, how have the representational impulses in these forms fared in comparison with those at work in pervasively digital cultures? Second, how might a long view of these artistic forms across media and in different settings affect our understanding of what co...
The Fourth Edition of the compendium pools together the knowledge and experience of experts from all over the world, who are engaged in teaching and research in the field of biochemistry, medical sciences and allied disciplines. Comprising 20 sections, the present edition of the book has been substantially revised incorporating the latest research and achievements in the field. Beginning appropriately with chemical architecture of the living systems, role and significance of biochemical reactions, organization of specialised tissues, and importance of food and nutrition, the book explores beyond traditional boundaries of biochemistry. The knowledge of various organ systems has been expanded ...
First published in 1989. This is the first translation of the Muwatta' in the English language. Imam Malik came from a family of learning and grew up in Madina al-Munawarra which was the capital of knowledge at that time, especially the knowledge of hadith. Known as one of the great reciter’, Malik's predisposition for retention and understanding of knowledge he took it upon himself to serve the shari'a and to preserve the Prophetic sunna. He did this by relaying it from those notable Tabi'un with whose knowledge he was satisfied and whose words he thought worthy of conveying and by his work he opened the way for all later writers and cleared a path for the compilation of Islamic law.
This book presents original contributions to the theories and practices of emerging Internet, data, and web technologies and their applicability in businesses, engineering, and academia. Internet has become the most proliferative platform for emerging large-scale computing paradigms. Among these, data and web technologies are two most prominent paradigms, in a variety of forms such as data centers, cloud computing, mobile cloud, mobile web services, and so on. These technologies altogether create a digital ecosystem whose corner stone is the data cycle, from capturing to processing, analysis, and visualization. The investigation of various research and development issues in this digital ecos...
Portrayals of Masculinity in Nigerian Plays explores Nigerian people's notions of masculinity as portrayed in twelve Nigerian plays, written by three generations of Nigerian playwrights. This book identifies different thoughts of masculinity within the Nigerian space in which hegemonic masculinity is the predominant.
Abridged from the four-volume "The Passion of al-Hallaj, " one of the major works of Western orientalism, this book explores the life and teaching of a famous tenth-century Sufi mystic and martyr, and in so doing describes not only his experience but also the whole milieu of early Islamic civilization. Louis Massignon (1883-1962), France's most celebrated Islamic specialist in this century and a leading Catholic intellectual, wrote of a man who was for him a personal inspiration. -- Back cover.
This edited volume deploys Deleuzian thinking to re-theorize fascism as a mutable problem in changing orders of power relations dependent on hitherto misunderstood social and political conditions of formation. The book provides a theoretically distinct approach to the problem of fascism and its relations with liberalism and modernity in both historical and contemporary contexts. It serves as a seminal intervention into the debate over the causes and consequences of contemporary wars and global political conflicts as well as functioning as an accessible guide to the theoretical utilities of Deleuzian thought for International Relations (IR) in a manner that is very much lacking in current deb...