Shades of Sulh: The Rhetorics of Arab-Islamic Reconciliation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822964018)

Winner, 2018 CCCC Outstanding Book Award Sulh is a centuries-old Arab-Islamic peacemaking process. In Shades of Sulh, Rasha Diab explores the possibilities of the rhetoric of sulh, as it is used to resolve intrapersonal, interpersonal, communal, national, and international conflicts, and provides cases that illustrate each of these domains. Diab demonstrates the adaptability and range of sulh as a ritual and practice that travels across spheres of activity (juridical, extra-juridical, political, diplomatic), through time (medieval, modern, contemporary), and over geopolitical borders (Cairo, Galilee, and Medina). Together, the cases prove the flexibility of sulh in the discourse of peacemaking--and that sulh has remarkable rhetorical longevity, versatility, and richness. Shades of Sulh sheds new light on rhetorics of reconciliation, human rights discourse, and Arab-Islamic rhetorics.

Author: Rasha Diab
ISBN-10: 0822964015
ISBN-13: 9780822964018
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 04/26/2016
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.70w x 0.70d