In Signs of the Wali, Dr Tommy Christomy focuses on the one of the early founders of Islam on Java, Shakyh Abdul Muhyi, whose burial site at Pamijahan in Tasikmalaya is a place of contemporary ziarah. This study initially conceived of as a philological exploration of historical manuscripts has been transformed into a study of ‘living manuscripts’ – the contemporary narratives of the custo…
buku ini mencoba mengangkat khazanah sejarah, seni, dan budaya, meski dalam lingkup yang masih kecil. Awalnya, buku ini sudah pernah diterbitkan oleh penerbit yang sama pada 2011 lalu. Buku ini menghimpun sejumlah artikel saya yang pernah dimuat di media cetak dan online. Ada 25 judul artikel yang saya sertakan. Beberapa artikel baru, terbit pada 2011 hingga 2017
This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent exploring textual criticism, genetic criticism, and literary criticism. In these sixteen stimulating contributions, he develops theories of textual criticism and editing that are inflected by our advance into the digital era; structurally analyses arts of compo…
Christianity in China has a history dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE), when Allopen—the first Nestorian missionary—arrived there in 635. In the late sixteenth century, Matteo Ricci together with other Jesuit missionaries commenced the Catholic missions to China. Protestant Christianity in China began with Robert Morrison, of London Missionary Society, who first set foot in Cant…