TY - BOOK AU - Qutbuddin,Tahera TI - Arabic oration: art and function T2 - Handbook of oriental studies. Section one, the Near and Middle East SN - 978-90-04-39440-7 U1 - 239.72 23A PY - 2019/// CY - Leiden PB - Brill N1 - Bibliogr. p. [564]-605; Abbreviations -- Presentation -- Introduction -- 1. The preservation of orations -- 2. Structure of the oration -- 3. Style of the oration -- 4. Orators and audience of the oration -- 5. The sermon of pious counsel -- 6. The Friday and Eid sermon -- 7. The battle oration -- 8. The political speech -- 9. Additional categories -- 10. Women's orations -- 11. The oration's influence on Arabic prose viewed in a hybrid oral-written continuum -- 12. The influence of the Classical Arabic oration on contemporary Muslim sermons and speeches -- Appendix of orations: References and index -- Glossary 1: Early Arabic orators -- Glossary 2: Arabic literary terms -- Bibliography -- General index ER -