Arabic Oration: Art and Function

Tahera Qutbuddin

Arabic Oration: Art and Function - xiv, 643 p., 25 cm - Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section one, the Near and Middle East; Vol. 131 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Abbreviations -- Presentation -- Introduction -- 1. The preservation of orations -- 2. Structure of the oration -- 3. Style of the oration -- 4. Orators and audience of the oration -- 5. The sermon of pious counsel -- 6. The Friday and Eid sermon -- 7. The battle oration -- 8. The political speech -- 9. Additional categories -- 10. Women's orations -- 11. The oration's influence on Arabic prose viewed in a hybrid oral-written continuum -- 12. The influence of the Classical Arabic oration on contemporary Muslim sermons and speeches -- Appendix of orations: References and index -- Glossary 1: Early Arabic orators -- Glossary 2: Arabic literary terms -- Bibliography -- General index.

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Arabic language--Rhetoric
Arabic sermons--History and criticism
Speeches, addresses, etc., Arabic--History and criticism