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The Power of Oratory in the Medieval Muslim World (Paperback)
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The Power of Oratory in the Medieval Muslim World (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
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Oratory and sermons had a fixed place in the religious and civic
rituals of pre-modern Muslim societies and were indispensable for
transmitting religious knowledge, legitimising or challenging
rulers and inculcating the moral values associated with being part
of the Muslim community. While there has been abundant scholarship
on medieval Christian and Jewish preaching, Linda G. Jones's book
is the first to consider the significance of the tradition of
pulpit oratory in the medieval Islamic world. Traversing Iberia and
North Africa from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, the book
analyses the power of oratory, the ritual juridical and rhetorical
features of pre-modern sermons and the social profiles of the
preachers and orators who delivered them. The biographical and
historical sources, which form the basis of this remarkable study,
shed light on different regional practices and the juridical
debates between individual preachers around correct performance.
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