To my parents who never lacked the support, encouragement, and prayers, and to my sweetheart Abeer who gave me so much love and showed a lot of patience. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my advisor, Prof. Gordon L. Stüber, for his insightful guidance and helpful comments. His hard work and dedication made me a better student and researcher. I would also like to thank the committee mem...

This is cross sectional study based on 304 households (couples) with wives age less than 48 years, chosen from urban locality (city Lahore). Fourteen religious, demographic and socioeconomic factors of categorical nature like husband education, wife education, husband’s monthly income, occupation of husband, household size, husband-wife discussion, number of living children, desire for more chi...

Abstract State-maintained Christian ethos schools are a prominent part of the educational landscape England and Wales, growing body empirical research has sought to access, study interpret voices their students in order contribute fuller understanding life within these place contemporary Britain. As this endeavour, focuses on what may be learnt from students’ prayer joint Anglican Catholic seco...

Osmanlı kronikleri, erken dönem gazî sultanlarının savaşlarda ‘Tanrısal takdir’i elde edebilmek için dua ritüeline başvurduklarına ilişkin pek çok rivayeti barındırır. Bu rivayetlerde sultanlar düşman karşısında mağlubiyet endişesi veya muzafferiyet arzusuyla Tanrı’nın yardımına başvurur. Türk hakimiyet anlayışının İslamiyet’le harmanlanmasıyla Osmanlı’ya intikal eden ilahî temelli bu inanış sa...