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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
