The Power of Oratory in the Medieval Muslim World

ISBN: 9781108449601 出版年：2012 页码：314 Linda G Jones Cambridge University Press

Introduction 1. Laying the foundations 2. The khutba: the 'central jewel' of medieval Arab-Islamic prose 3. The khutba: rhetorical and discursive strategies of persuasion 4. Putting it all together: the khutba, texts, and contexts Part I. Canonical Questions: 5. Putting it all together: the khutba, texts, and contexts Part II. Thematic and Occasional Orations: 6. Homiletic exhortation and storytelling: challenging the 'popular' 7. 'The good eloquent speaker': profiles of pre-modern Muslim preachers 8. The audience responds: participation, reception, contestation Conclusion.