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Arabic Oration: Art and Function

Arabic Oration: Art and Function

Paperback

Islam

ISBN10: 9004511024
ISBN13: 9789004511026
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jan 27 2022
Pages: 644
Weight: 1.95
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.21
Language: Arabic
Winner of the 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award (category: Arab Culture in Other Languages)

Browse a preview of Arabic Oration: Art and Fuction. 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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