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The power of oratory in the medieval Muslim world / / Linda G. Jones [[electronic resource]]



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Autore: Jones Linda Gale Visualizza persona
Titolo: The power of oratory in the medieval Muslim world / / Linda G. Jones [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 298 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 892.7/50109
Soggetto topico: Arabic language - Rhetoric - History
Islamic preaching - History
Classificazione: HIS026000
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-284) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Laying the foundations -- The Khuṭba: the 'central jewel' of medieval Arab-Islamic prose -- Rhetorical and discursive strategies of persuasion in the Khuṭba -- Part 1: Putting it all together: texts, contexts, and performances -- Canonical orations: Friday sermons and wedding orations -- Thematic and occasional orations: political oratory and sermons and jihad -- Homiletic exhortation and storytelling: challenging the 'popular' -- Part 2: The preacher and the audience -- 'The good eloquent speaker': profiles of pre-modern Muslim preachers -- The audience responds: participation, reception, contestation -- Conclusion.
Sommario/riassunto: Oratory and sermons had a fixed place in the religious and civic rituals of pre-modern Muslim societies and were indispensable for transmitting religious knowledge, legitimising or challenging rulers and inculcating the moral values associated with being part of the Muslim community. While there has been abundant scholarship on medieval Christian and Jewish preaching, Linda G. Jones's book is the first to consider the significance of the tradition of pulpit oratory in the medieval Islamic world. Traversing Iberia and North Africa from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, the book analyses the power of oratory, the ritual juridical and rhetorical features of pre-modern sermons and the social profiles of the preachers and orators who delivered them. The biographical and historical sources, which form the basis of this remarkable study, shed light on different regional practices and the juridical debates between individual preachers around correct performance.
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ISBN: 1-139-88764-5
1-139-54023-8
1-139-52624-3
1-139-52863-7
1-139-14945-8
1-139-53091-7
1-139-53210-3
1-283-81228-2
1-139-52744-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910779340003321
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Serie: Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.