ABSTRACT

Arabic Rhetoric explores the history, disciplines, order and pragmatic functions of Arabic speech acts. It offers a new understanding of Arabic rhetoric and employs examples from modern standard Arabic as well as providing a glossary of over 448 rhetorical expressions listed in English with their translations, which make the book more accessible to the modern day reader. Hussein’s study of Arabic rhetoric bridges the gap between learning and research, whilst also meeting the academic needs of our present time. This up-to-date text provides a valuable source for undergraduate students learning Arabic as a foreign language, and is also an essential text for researchers in Arabic, Islamic studies, and students of linguistics and academics.

chapter |7 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter 1|23 pages

PREAMBLE TO ARABIC RHETORIC

chapter 2|44 pages

HISTORICAL REVIEW

chapter 3|22 pages

ELOQUENCE AND RHETORIC

chapter 4|99 pages

WORD ORDER

chapter 5|43 pages

FIGURES OF SPEECH

chapter 6|32 pages

EMBELLISHMENTS