Arab Oratory in Mediaeval Age A Study in Subject and Technique | ||
| Basic Education College Magazine For Educational and Humanities Sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 16, May 2018, Pages 335-356 | ||
| Author | ||
| Hussain AbdulAl Al-Lihaiby | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Oratory is one of the literary arts that Man had known since the early history, it aims at affecting the audiences or listeners, so prophets used it as a device to defuse their instructions and attract people, with eloquence and rhetoric they change regimes and nations. Arab literature had a long history in the development of this art till it reached the peak at the early beginning of Islamic era and the Omayyad era , yet it had weaken during the mediaeval age with which we are dealing in this paper. The Mediaeval Age is the period from (656A.H = 1258 A.D), the year on which the Mongol had occupied Baghdad and ended the Abbasside caliphate, to(922 A.H = 1517 A.D) where Ottomans had occupied Egypt. Critics used to call this period as the Dark Age; the Arab nation had witnessed degradation and degeneration in all fields, the reason, as they said, was that the rulers were not Arab and did not understand the Arabic language, literary for them have no sense, those critics see the negative image of this age which could be right if we were talking about the Ottoman era. In fact this is not fair for this age heritage and literary as well as its encyclopedic books in the different fields of knowledge which could not be neglected. Hence oratory, in this age, has an important status where it had witnessed degradation and degeneration, so it must be studied fully to reveal its aspects, characteristic and the reasons of its degeneration. These reasons motivate the researcher to deal with this subject collecting information. | ||
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