TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Linda Gale
TI  - The power of oratory in the medieval Muslim world
T2  - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
SN  - 9781107023055 (Hardback)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Arabic language
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - History
KW  - Islamic preaching
N1  - 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; Bibliography : p. 267-284
ER  -