The power of oratory in the medieval Muslim world

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Main Author: Jones, Linda G.
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Published: New York Cambridge University Press 2012
Series:Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
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505 0 # |a Introduction -- Laying the foundations -- The Khuòtba: the 'central jewel' of medieval Arab-Islamic prose -- Rhetorical and discursive strategies of persuasion in the Khuòtba -- Part 1: Putting it all together: texts, contexts, and performances -- Canonical orations: Friday sermons and wedding orations -- Thematic and occasional orations: political oratory and sermons and jihad -- Homiletic exhortation and storytelling: challenging the 'popular' -- Part 2: The preacher and the audience -- 'The good eloquent speaker': profiles of pre-modern Muslim preachers -- The audience responds: participation, reception, contestation -- Conclusion 
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