Arabic oration
Subtitle: art and function
By: by Tahera Qutbuddin
Series: Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, the Near and Middle East -- volume 131; Handbook of Oriental studies -- v. 131.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 643
ISBN-13: 9789004394407; 9789004395800
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Arabic language; Rhetoric; Arabic Sermons; History and criticism; Speeches, addresses; Arabisch; Rhetorik
Description: In Arabic Oration: Art and Function, a narrative richly infused with illustrative texts and original translations, Tahera Qutbuddin presents a comprehensive theory of this preeminent genre in its foundational oral period, 7th-8th centuries AD. With speeches and sermons attributed to the Prophet Muḥammad, ʻAlī, other political and military leaders, and a number of prominent women, she assesses types of orations and themes, preservation and provenance, structure and style, orator-audience authority dynamics, and, with the shift from an oral to a highly literate culture, oration 's influence on the medieval chancery epistle. Probing the genre's echoes in the contemporary Muslim world, she offers sensitive tools with which to decode speeches by mosque-imams and political leaders today."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Abbreviations; title: Presentation; title: Introduction; title: 1. The preservation of orations; title: 2. Structure of the oration; title: 3. Style of the oration; title: 4. Orators and audience of the oration; title: 5. The sermon of pious counsel; title: 6. The Friday and Eid sermon; title: 7. The battle oration; title: 8. The political speech; title: 9. Additional categories; title: 10. Women's orations; title: 11. The oration's influence on Arabic prose viewed in a hybrid oral-written continuum; title: 12. The influence of the Classical Arabic oration on contemporary Muslim sermons and speeches; title: Appendix of orations: References and index; title: Glossary 1: Early Arabic orators; title: Glossary 2: Arabic literary terms; title: Bibliography; title: General index.