The power of oratory in the medieval Muslim world

The power of oratory in the medieval Muslim world

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Linda G.
Format: Book
Published: New York Cambridge University Press 2012
Series:Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
Subjects:
Arabic language > History > Rhetoric
Islamic preaching > History > History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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