Arabic Oration: Art and Function

By Tahera Qutbuddin

Winner of the 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award (category: Arab Culture in Other Languages)

Browse a preview of Arabic Oration: Art and Fuction. 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004394400
• ISBN13: 9789004394407
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 660 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"