Arabic Oration: Art and Function
Tahera Qutbuddin
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, ʿAlī, 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.
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Année:
2019
Editeur::
BRILL
Langue:
english
Pages:
603
ISBN 10:
9004394400
ISBN 13:
9789004394407
Collection:
Handbook of Oriental Studies / Handbuch der Orientalistik, Section One: The Near and Middle East 131
Fichier:
PDF, 6.40 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2019