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Shades of Sulh : The Rhetorics of Arab-Islamic Reconciliation /

"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...

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Autor principal: Diab, Rasha (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.