Shades of Sulh
Subtitle: The Rhetorics of Arab-Islamic Reconciliation
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780822964018
Subjects: Rhetoric; Arabic language; Dispute resolution (law); Persuasion (rhetoric); Reconciliation; Conflict management; Arab countries, politics and government
Description: "Sulh is a centuries-old Arab-Islamic peacemaking practice. Rasha Diab explores the possibilities and limits of the rhetoric of sulh as it is used to resolve interpersonal, communal, and (inter)national conflicts--with a case illustrating each of these domains. The cases range from medieval to contemporary times and are analyzed using both rhetorical and critical discourse analyses"--