Arabic Oration: Art and Function
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-51102-6 (ISBN)
Winner of the 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award (category: Arab Culture in Other Languages)
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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.
Tahera Qutbuddin, Ph.D. (1999), Harvard, is Professor of Arabic Literature at The University of Chicago. She has published widely on Islamic preaching, Ali’s sermons, Fatimid poetry, Tayyibi Bohra literature, and Arabic in India, including Light in the Heavens: Sayings of the Prophet Muḥammad (NYU, 2016)
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Presentation
Introduction
1 The Preservation of Orations
Mnemonics-Based Oral Transmission, Supplementary Writing, and the Question of Authenticity
2 Structure of the Oration
Contextualization of Conventional Components to Strengthen a Religio-Political Message
3 Style of the Oration
The Aesthetics of Orality and Persuasion
4 Orators and Audience of the Oration
Dynamics of Public Space, Authority, and Negotiation
5 The Sermon of Pious Counsel
Human Mortality, a Life of Virtue, and Preparation for the Hereafter
6 The Friday and Eid Sermon
Ritual and Piety, Politics and War
7 The Battle Oration
Horses and Swords, Strategies and Ethics, Urgings and Prayers
8 The Political Speech
Succession and Accession, Control and Policy
9 Additional Categories
Legislative, Theological, Oracular, and Marriage Orations
10 Women’s Orations
Kinship-Based Authority and Silence-Breaking Trauma
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.03.2022 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | arabisch; englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 1103 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-51102-4 / 9004511024 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-51102-6 / 9789004511026 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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