Arabic Oration: Art and Function (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 the Near and Middle East)

Qutbuddin, Tahera

Brill（2019/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 644 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004394407
• DDC分類 892.753209

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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.

Contents

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