Arabic Oration: Art and Function

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51102-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 644 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1103 g

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 Muhammad, 'Ali, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Qutbuddin, Tahera

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Kult, Riten, Zeremonien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 Muhammad (NYU, 2016)