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Title Arabic oration : art and function / by Tahera Qutbuddin.

Description	xiv, 643 p. ; 25 cm.
Series	Handbook of oriental studies. Section one, the Near and Middle East ; Volume 131
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Abbreviations -- Presentation -- Introduction -- 1. The preservation of orations -- 2. Structure of the oration -- 3. Style of the oration -- 4. Orators and audience of the oration -- 5. The sermon of pious counsel -- 6. The Friday and Eid sermon -- 7. The battle oration -- 8. The political speech -- 9. Additional categories -- 10. Women's orations -- 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.
Subject	Arabic language -- Rhetoric
	Sermons, Arabic -- History and criticism
	Speeches, addresses, etc., Arabic -- History and criticism
Other Form:	Online version: Qutbuddin, Tahera, author. Arabic oration Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] 9789004395800 (DLC) 2019007048
ISBN	9789004394407 (hardback ; alk. paper)
	9789004511026 paperback ; alk. paper)
	9789004395800 (e-book)