TY - BOOK AU - Tahera Qutbuddin TI - Arabic Oration: Art and Function T2 - Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section one, the Near and Middle East SN - 9789004511026 PY - 2022/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Arabic language KW - Rhetoric KW - Arabic sermons KW - History and criticism KW - Speeches, addresses, etc., Arabic N1 - 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 ER -