Diab, Rasha,

Shades of ṣulḥ the rhetorics of Arab-Islamic reconciliation / [electronic resource] : Rasha Diab. - Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: discursive spaces for peace -- Peacemaking topoi: cultural Iterations of relational and moral needs -- The power of sweet persuasion: cultural inflections of interpersonal ṣulḥ rhetorics -- We the reconciled: the convergence of ṣulḥ and human rights -- From the Egyptian People's Assembly to the Israeli Knesset: al-Sādāt's Knesset address, ṣulḥ, and diplomacy -- To gather at court: ṣulḥ as rhetorical method -- Conclusion: the gift of possibility.

"Sulh is a centuries-old Arab-Islamic peacemaking practice. Rasha Diab explores the possibilities and limits of the rhetoric of sulh as it is used to resolve interpersonal, communal, and (inter)national conflicts--with a case illustrating each of these domains. The cases range from medieval to contemporary times and are analyzed using both rhetorical and critical discourse analyses"--

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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric.
Conflict management.
Reconciliation--Policial aspects--Arab countries.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)--Politcal aspects--Arab countries.
Dispute resolution--Arab countries.
Arabic language--Rhetoric.
Rhetoric--Political aspects--Arab countries.


Electronic books.

P301.5.P67 / D53 2016

303.6/909175927