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Dear Colleagues,</p>
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I’m pleased to share the news that Brill has now published a paperback edition of my 2019 book,
<i>Arabic Oration: Art and Function</i> (<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://brill.com/view/title/54473__;!!C5qS4YX3!XCQhh4X41Tlgis3UWHpfEnXN7ROb3s5WwSDAKPaVL9Zc9FpTA4wcR7SQvFMH2dar$">https://brill.com/view/title/54473</a>) at a (relatively!) more
affordable price (€49.00/$59.00). They have also provided for me to share on this listserv the Brill
<span lang="EN-GB">author discount code for 2022 (35% discount) that can be used for orders from the Brill webshop: The code is: 71428.</span></p>
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<span style="color:#0070C0">Publisher’s Abstract</span>:</p>
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In <i>Arabic Oration: Art and Function</i>, a narrative richly infused with illustrative texts and original translations, Tahera Qutbuddin presents a comprehensive theory of this preeminent genre in its foundational oral period, 7th-8th centuries AD. With speeches
and sermons attributed to the Prophet Muḥammad, ʿAlī, other political and military leaders, and a number of prominent women, she assesses types of orations and themes, preservation and provenance, structure and style, orator-audience authority dynamics, and,
with the shift from an oral to a highly literate culture, oration’s influence on the medieval chancery epistle. Probing the genre’s echoes in the contemporary Muslim world, she offers sensitive tools with which to decode speeches by mosque imams and political
leaders today.</p>
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<span style="color:#0070C0">Pre-publication Reviews:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“This erudite study is a major breakthrough in our understanding of Arabic oratory. Qutbuddin has painstakingly reconstructed this vast tradition in all its diverse guises and contexts, from the battlefield
to the pulpit, from political to legislative speeches. She presents its complexities with lucid precision and scrupulous attention to detail—and it is a truly pioneering work for Qutbuddin’s discussion of women’s orations and her survey of contemporary sermons.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">–<i>James Montgomery, Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic, University of Cambridge</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“For a scholar of Western traditions of political thought, this book is a revelation. The Western canon also begins with oratory and with the ideas of the relation between public speech and politics that lay
at the heart of Greek practice. To come to understand how the Arabic tradition thinks of language’s role in shaping communal and political life will significantly advance the capacity of scholars to engage with the political discourse of the Arabic speaking
world. This project is of fundamental importance and should transform the capacity of the non-Islamic and Islamic worlds to communicate with each other about political subjects.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">–<i>Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard University, and Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“<i>Arabic Oration: Art and Function
</i>undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the Arabic oration, a prominent genre of Arabic literature that has roots in ancient Arab oral tradition. Tahera Qutbuddin presents a masterful survey of the genre, identifying the major sub-categories of the genre
and analyzing their formal conventions, themes, rhetorical strategies, and aesthetics. Drawing on examples attributed to orators from the pre-Islamic period, key figures of the nascent Muslim community, and commanders, governors, and other prominent figures
of early Islamic history, including women, she addresses the reception of orations and the important functions they served in political, social, and religious life. This ground-breaking work provides essential background for an understanding of Arabic literary
history, early Islamic political history, and the history of the Arabic language.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">–<i>Devin J. Stewart, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Emory University</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“Pious sermons, stirring battle speeches, chilling political rhetoric by stern governors, splendid literary artefacts: they are the subject of this magisterial book on Arabic oratory in which Tahera Qutbuddin
deals with Arabic speeches as they have been recorded in the early centuries of Islam. Their stylistic and structural characteristics, their oral nature, their function, their influence even on present-day Friday sermons in Muslim countries, all this is expertly
handled, as is the controversial matter of their authenticity. This book about an important but somewhat neglected genre is essential reading for all students of early Islam, its history and its literature.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">–<i>Geert Jan van Gelder, Laudian Professor of Arabic Emeritus, University of Oxford</i></span></p>
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I’ve also uploaded the book’s TOC and Introduction to <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://chicago.academia.edu/TaheraQutbuddin__;!!C5qS4YX3!XCQhh4X41Tlgis3UWHpfEnXN7ROb3s5WwSDAKPaVL9Zc9FpTA4wcR7SQvNz_7hYl$">
my Academia.edu page</a></p>
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Best wishes,</p>
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Tahera<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Sylfaen",serif; color:#86322E">Tahera Qutbuddin</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Sylfaen",serif; color:#86322E">Professor of Arabic Literature, Department of NELC, University of Chicago</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Sylfaen",serif; color:#86322E">Brill, Handbook of Oriental Studies, 2019:
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