Arabic Oration: Art and Function

In Arabic Oration: Art and Function, Tahera Qutbuddin presents a comprehensive theory of this foundational prose genre, analysing its oral aesthetics and its political, military, and religious functions in early Islamic civilization, tracing its echoes in Muslim public address today.

About the author

Tahera Qutbuddin, Ph.D. (1999), Harvard, is Professor of Arabic Literature at The University of Chicago. She has published widely on Islamic preaching, Ali's sermons, Fatimid poetry, Tayyibi Bohra literature, and Arabic in India, including Light in the Heavens: Sayings of the Prophet Muḥammad (NYU, 2016)

Product details

• Authors: Tahera Qutbuddin
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2019
• EAN: 9789004394407
• ISBN: 978-90-04-39440-7
• No. of pages: 660
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 236 mm x 41 mm
• Weight: 1089 g
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions