Arabic oration : art and function /

Arabic oration : art and function /

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 Muḥ...

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Main Author: Qutbuddin, Tahera (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 131.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386341.

Subjects:

Arabic language > Rhetoric.
Sermons, Arabic > History and criticism.
Speeches, addresses, etc.

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Call Number: PJ6395

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Presentation
  • Introduction
  • The Preservation of Orations
  • Structure of the Oration
  • Style of the Oration
  • Orators and Audience of the Oration
  • The Sermon of Pious Counsel
  • The Friday and Eid Sermon
  • The Battle Oration
  • The Political Speech
  • Additional Categories
  • Women's Orations
  • The Oration's Influence on Arabic Prose Viewed in a Hybrid Oral-Written Continuum
  • The Influence of the Classical Arabic Oration on Contemporary Muslim Sermons and Speeches
  • Back Matter
  • Appendix of Orations: References and Index
  • Early Arabic Orators
  • Arabic Literary Terms
  • Bibliography
  • General Index.