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.