- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 248 pages)
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
- Uniform Title
- Shades of ṣulḥ (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Shades of ṣulḥ (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2016007244
- OCLC
- ssj0001678761
- Author
Diab, Rasha.
- Title
Shades of ṣulḥ [electronic resource] : the rhetorics of Arab-Islamic reconciliation / Rasha Diab.
- Imprint
Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]
- Series
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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