Jones, Linda Gale. <br/><br/>
The power of oratory in the medieval Muslim world / 
Linda G. Jones. 
 - New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2012. 
 - xi, 298 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization. .
 - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization. .
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/>Bibliography : p. 267-284 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107023055 (Hardback)  RM316.01 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Arabic language--Rhetoric--History.<br/>Islamic preaching--History.