Arabic Oration

Art and Function

von Tahera Qutbuddin

660 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Brill
• ISBN: 9789004511026
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.01.2022
• Größe: 234 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV