The power of oratory in the medieval Muslim world / Linda G. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Linda Gale, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Rhetoric--History.

Arabic language.

Islamic preaching--History.

Islamic preaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 298 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-284) and index.

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

OCLC:

818858417