Research Catalog

Title

Shades of ṣulḥ : the rhetorics of Arab-Islamic reconciliation / Rasha Diab.

Author

Diab, Rasha

Publication

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]

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Description

xi, 248 pages; 23 cm.

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

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture

Subject

• Rhetoric > Political aspects > Arab countries
• Arabic language > Rhetoric
• Dispute resolution > Arab countries
• Persuasion (Rhetoric)
• Reconciliation
• Conflict management
• LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Islamic Studies
• Reconciliation > Arab countries
• Persuasion (Rhetoric) > Arab countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780822964018
• 0822964015

LCCN

^^2016007244

OCLC

• 923552215
• SCSB-12672559

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library