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The power of oratory in the medieval Muslim world by Jones, Linda G.

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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